New writing experience – continuation

General data

Course ID:	1.2.5-EC-NWEC
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	New writing experience – continuation
Name in Polish:	New writing experience – continuation
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Philology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Studia stacjonarne
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:	elective courses
Mode:	Online
Short description:	The course focuses on developing the skills of summarising, paraphrasing and synthesising. Among these essential academic skills, synthesizing is the most advanced one and shall be given particular consideration. Students are given opportunity to take practical steps towards mastering synthesis on the academic advanced level.
Full description:	Course objectives: - students develop writing skills on academic level - students master their critical thinking skills - students develop academic skills of material selection for synthesising with reference to topics given Course content: -combining sentences into texts - practicing sophisticated structure and learning coherence -decomposing texts into sentences - exercising cohesion and coherence -summarising - texts of various genres -synthesising information - writing a synthesis; documenting sources Methods of teaching: -pair/group work/cooperation/critical analysis -teacher-group meetings - discussion/exercises -individual tasks (structure/summaries) -individual projects (synthesising/literature review)
Bibliography:	All the reading/writing/exercise materials and tasks provided by the teacher in pdf/ word files/ppts in advance
Learning outcomes:	1. Graduates understand the importance of English as a language tool used for studying philological academic subjects and the rules of contextual communication while/by writing (k_W03; P6S_WG) 2. Graduates can use English at C1 in writing and structure within the context of both creative and structured formal writing (k_U05; P6S_UK) 3. Graduates are ready to cooperate and critically approach and solve problems involved in realization of professional tasks linked to written communication (k-K02; P6S_KK)
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	written assignments - 1,2,3 3. final project-synthesis - 1,2,3 Criteria of evaluation: - group/pair work – 2 points: 3,0; 3-4 points: 3,5; 5-6 points: 4,0; 7-8 points: 4,5; more than 9 points: 5,0 - informed participation in classes – 2 points: 3,0; 3-4 points: 3,5; 5-6 points: 4,0; 7-8 points: 4,5; more than 9 points: 5,0 - project – written report – 60%: 3,0; 61-70%: 3,5; 71-80%: 4,0; 90%: 4,5; 100%: 5,0 All the effects and grades are individually discussed with the students

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