Academic writing 1

General data

Course ID:	1.2.W3.EP.44
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Academic writing 1
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. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Short description:	The course concentrates on supporting students with producing a research paper in academic style as a partial requirement for their BA defence examination. The emphasis is placed at critical reading prior to argumantative narrative production.
Full description:	Students cover the theoretical and practical topics as follows: 1. revision of the stance of the academic writer - the rhetorics and language mechanics - levels of formality, impersonal narration, complex sentence structures 2. BA text organization - working within the template BA/MA required in this Institute, students prepare outlays of the final draft which are systematically revised in class 3. APA style - discussion of problematic instances 4. synthesising - based on the material prepared by the teacher students exercise writing a synthesis; furhter, they prepare their own syntheses based on reference sources they have been collecting throughout the course
Bibliography:	Bailey, S. 2011. Academic Writing. Roultedge. materials prepared by the teacher
Learning outcomes:	1. Graduates know and understand the place of philological study among humanities as well as its methodologies (k_W01; P6S_WG) - analytical and interpretative methods in the disciplines discussed during seminar class (k_W04; P6S_WG) - the rules of copywright and its protection (k_W10; P6S_WK) 2. Graduates can use the terminology and take position related to philological studies (k_U01; P6S_UW) - recognize different types of texts and analyse them critically (k_U02; P6S_UW) - seek and critically analyse information from different philological sources-synthesis (k_U07; P6S_UO) 3. Graduates are ready to set priorities in realising various task connected to studying (k_K01; P6S_KK) - critical assessment and solving problems related to professional carreer where creating texts is involved (k_K02; P6S_KK)
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	1. 20% - attendance and participation 2. 40 % - research paper: layout, contens; introduction and one chapter 3. 40 % - synthesis in the written/ printed version

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