8. semestar

Kratki opis kolegija.

Kratki opis kolegija.

Kratki opis kolegija.

Kratki opis kolegija.

Academic Writing Course

Outcomes
The course will help you to:

• understand and apply the conventions of academic writing
• continuously develop the skills of critical reading and evaluating academic texts
• write academic papers
• use IT as a key resource of research and writing

Course content

• analysing and evaluating academic texts of various disciplines.
• studying the component parts of an academic paper: abstract, introduction, main body, conclusion, list of references, footnotes, headings, titles.
• studying and practising the key skills of academic writing: paraphrasing, summarising, documenting sources, listing, connecting, generalising, exemplifying, comparing and concluding.
• developing an appropriate register and awareness of the reader.
• drafting, editing and proofreading parts of an academic text.

Course outline

1. Defining the academic paper
2. Developing the subject
3. The thesis statement
4. Finding secondary sources and preparing the outline
5. Using the secondary sources
6. Paraphrasing
7. Summarising
8. Preparing the documentation
9. Writing the introduction and conclusion
10. Organising the main body
11. Functions: definitions / exemplification / classification / generalisation
12. Lexis: specialist / semi-specialist / colloquial speech

Assessment

a) Assignments 35%
b) Mid-term test 20%
c) End of course test 35%
d) Participation 10%

Reading
Sorenson, S, How to Write Research Papers. 3rd ed. Lawrenceville, NJ: Petersons,
2002.
Jordan, R.R., Academic Writing Course. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 1999.