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(in Polish) Academic writing 1

General data

Course ID: 1.2.5-W1-PA1
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: Academic writing 1
Organizational unit: Faculty of Philology
Course groups: (in Polish) Studia niestacjonarne
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): (not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: (unknown)
Short description:

The course offers grammar and rhetorics/ style support in academic writing

Full description:

During the course Students are assisted in the process of their BA writing. Both structural and rhetorical questions are discussed and practiced. Among them:

1. Adjectival/ relative clause - structure, function and meaning.

2. Passive structures - function and meaning.

3. Stance and voice - pronouns, boosters and hedges.

4. Transition - the rhetoric of sentences and texts

5. Analysis and synthesis - text recycling

6. Levels of formality

7. Cohesion and coherence

Bibliography:

Lynch, T., K. Anderson. 2013. Grammar for Academic Writing. University of Edinburgh

other materials selected and offered by the Teacher

Learning outcomes:

k-U-6

use English as a foreign language at the level of at least C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages

k-U-8

independently plan and carry out their own learning throughout life P6S_UU

k-K-1

critically assess their philological knowledge and recognize the importance of knowledge of the language in solving cognitive practical problems P6S_KK

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

the course terminates with the credit for BA writing

Students hand in pieces of their writing systematically and according to a schedule agreed at the beginning of the semester; the final grade is connected to the whole process and is the average of the grades obtained by the Student

This course is not currently offered.
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