Academic Writing Skills - Einzelansicht

Titel

Academic Writing Skills

Präsenzzeit

2 SWS (1 x 90 minutes per week during the lecture period)

Lernziele / Kompetenzen

Improving academic writing skills. The focus is on the writing of academic texts that require citation and the synthesis of information from diverse sources.

This course raises awareness of cross-cultural differences in academic writing patterns and instructs students in the norms of academic writing within an English-language academic context. Nonetheless, the skills from this course are transferable to writing within a German academic context. This course is recommended as preparation for students who plan to write theses as well as those who will be required to write academic essays.

Please note that this course does not cover job-related skills such as writing basic business emails and CVs.

Voraussetzungen

Placement test: 80 points or UNIcert III/1 completed.

Lernform

Course includes seminars and workshops with a focus on writing skills. Students should expect to share their writing and comment on the writing of others.

Prüfungsform

An in-class written test plus submission of an essay or one section of a thesis paper. The text will be required to be submitted in stages for feedback.

Notengebung

In-class written test: 50%

Academic essay or section of thesis: 50%

Inhalte

The course will cover:

An introduction to cultural differences in academic and research communication

Sentence structure

English and American rules of punctuation

Academic reading

Paragraph construction

Creating coherence within and between paragraphs

Plagiarism, citation and paraphrase

Use of referencing styles and referencing software

Academic and non-academic language

The macro structures of academic essays and theses

Editing skills

Literatur

Course material supplied by teacher, including exercises and links on the course Moodle.

Sprache

Course offered in the English language