Writing skills

obowiązkowe

studia drugiego stopnia

Master of Liberal Arts

semestr 1

studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

języki obce
obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties

Total number of ECTS: 4

1 ECTS = 30 hours of classes

0,5 ECTS = 15 hours direct contact with the instructor

2,5 ECTS = 75 hrs of home-study, preparation for classes, extensive reading, writing

Course description

The course supports the students in reaching their C1-level competence In writing in English. It provides students with an opportunity to develop and practise their (academic) written skills in terms of different (academic) text types as well as various grammatical and stylistic phenomena. During the course students will learn how to take stance and how to reasonably argue a point by providing sound evidence to the point's advantage and refute any counterarguments that could undermine the point. Additionally, a number of useful syntactic constructions in stance taking, such as relative clauses, emphatic construction etc., will be introduced and practised.

Course objectives

- to improve students' proficiency in writing at C1 level.

- to prepare students for C1-Level Practical English Exam with respect to writing

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Course content:

- essay organization (Introduction (Thesis Statement) , Main Body (Topic Sentences), Conclusions)

- persuasive/argumentative essay

- punctuation

- elements of academic style

- sentence building with relative clauses

- persuasive stylistic devices: emphasis

- stylistic/syntactic variation: left and right handed sentences

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity

extensive reading, writing tasks, feedback, individual work, discussion, ICT tools/MSTeams

Reading list:

Adams-Tukiendorf, M., & Rydzak, D. (2012). Developing writing skills: A manual for EFL students (2nd ed.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego.

Foley, M., & Hall, D. (2003). Advanced learners’ grammar. London: Longman.

Huddleston, R., & Pullum, G. K. (2005). A students’ introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jordan. R.R. (1997). Academic writing course (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wyric, J. (1990). Steps to writing well. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019:

Knowledge

A student knows :

1. scientific facts pertaining to the complexity of phenomena related to language in (mediated) communication (k_W01/P7S_WG)

2. specialist terminology and advanced reasoning and presentation techniques characteristic of academic exposition in the selected discipline (k_W09/P7S_WG)

Skills

A student is able to:

3. recognise and replicate typical genres, styles and rhetorical conventions characteristic of (academic) communication (k_U01/P7S_UW)

4. select information from various sources and evaluate its relevance and credibility to be used in writing (k_U02/P7S_UW)

5. understand and process information and reconstruct underlying meaning and argumentation given specific cultural context (k_U03/P7S_UW)

6. argue a point and respond in writing to offer alternative viewpoint or reasoned critique (k_U12/P7S_UK)

7. use English at least at the level of C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages and in the scope of specialist terminology in the humanities and social sciences (k_U13/P7S_UK)

Social competences

A student:

8. is able to critically assess incoming information, acknowledge merits and limitations of various viewpoints, theories, methods and research results (k_K02/P7S_KK)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Active in-class participation 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,8)

2. Written assignments up to 80% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Grading criteria:

60% -67% grade 3.0 (pass)

68% - 75% grade 3.5

76% - 83% grade 4.0

84% - 91% grade 4.5

92% - 100% grade 5.0