Academic Writing

Nummer

10401S3

Zielsetzung / Purpose

Students become acquainted with the academic style of writing, with its characteristics and features and practice. Students gain first experience of research question formulation and delimitation (students can nominate their own topic for the review). Students can conduct preliminary research (applying knowledge gained in the Critical Approach course), collect and annotate data methodically. Acknowledging sources, correctly, should be an ingrained habit by the end of the course. Students are informed of how to cite (Harvard style) and are instructed in how to avoid plagiarism. Students are also taught, and gain practice in, how to organise their texts and their writing. Students deliver a literature review with a full bibliography

Inhalt / Content

Characteristics of Academic Style: objectivity, hedging, responsibility, academic lexis, precision, impartial (gender, race, age ) Literature/Desk Research (how to conduct, where to look, note-taking/documenting) Sourcing: Harvard Style Literature Review: paraphrasing, quoting, summarising How to write: discussions, bibliography, literature review, Organisation: (review) outline, clustering, paragraphs, cohesion, drafting, proofreading Plagiarism The Literature Review

Besondere Eintrittsvoraussetzungen / Special Conditions of Admission

Critical Approach (Methods 1)

Bibliographie/Literatur / Bibliography / Literature / References

Bailey, S. 2007. Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. Oxford: Routledge Gillet, A. 2013. Using English for Academic Purposes. Website. Available under www.uefap.com. BALEAP Lipson, Ch. 2005. How to Write a BA Thesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Markman, R., Markman, P. and Waddell, M. 2001. 10 Steps in Writing the Research Paper. 6th ed. NY:Barrons Educational Series Sprenger, B. 2012. Guidelines to Academic Papers (Harvard Style. Script. FHNW Winkler, A. and McCuen, S. 1999. Writing the Research Paper. 5th ed. FL.Harcourt

Lehr- und Lernmethoden / Methods

Lessons (cf Moodle platform) Pair and group transfer activities Coaching in plenum Guided practice

Leistungsbewertung/Testanforderung(en) / Assessment

in-course assessments: 1 Literature Review with full Bibliography - A minimum grade of 3.1 must be reached in this course in order to pass the module.

Anschlussmodule/-kurse / Next Module / Course

Research Paper (semester 4) Live Project Paper (semesters 5 & 6) Bachelor Thesis

Bemerkungen

Visiting Students: a good level of English (B2/C1) is essential. Some experience of writing at tertiary level is also important.