Academic writing 1

obowiązkowe

Cumming, Alistair (ed). (2006). Goals for academic writing: ESL students and their instructors. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

The writing skills to be achieved within this module include quoting and reference-making (according to APA/MLA guidelines), summarizing, paraphrasing and synthesizing academic texts in accordance with worldwide standards for published research.

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ECTS points: 2

1 ECTS: 30h attending classes

0,5 ECTS: 10hconsultations

0,5 ECTS:15h

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instructors:

Katarzyna Buczek, PhD: kbuczek@uni.opole.pl

Marlena Marciniak, PhD: marciniakm@uni.opole.pl

Sławomir Kuźnicki, PhD: skuznicki@uni.opole.pl

Wacław Grzybowski, PhD: wgrzybowski@uni.opole.pl

Zbigniew Pyż, PhD: zpyz@uni.opole.pl

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coordinator:

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, PhD: m.tukiendorf@uni.opole.pl

1. The formal properties and conventions of academic writing .

2. Selected stylesheet guidelines (APA, MLA).

3. In-text citations and quotations

4. Compiling a bibliography

5. Paraphrase.

6. Summary.

For Linguistics:

Bailey, S. (2011). Academic Writing - A Handbook for International Students (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.

Oshima, A., & Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English (4th ed.). New York: Pearson Education.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). (2017). Washington: APA.

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For Literature Studies:

Adams-Tukiendorf, M. and D. Rydzak, Developing writing skills: a manual for EFL students, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, Opole, 2012.

Macpherson, R, English for writers and translators, Wydaw. Naukowe PWN,

Warszawa, 2004.

MLA style manuals.

Knowledge

Graduate knows and understands:

1. academic forms of writing used for writing BA thesis: quotation, summary, paraphrase; advanced forms of opinion essay, expository essay, argumentative essay, synthesis. (k-W-4, P6S_WG)

Skills

Graduate can:

2. use proper English, grammatical and syntactical structures, together with advanced vocabulary and phraseology, both in summaries and paraphrases used for writing BA thesis. (k-U-1, P6S_UW)

3. achieve coherence, clarity of meaning, and varied, attractive linguistic expression at advanced level used for writing BA thesis. (k-U-2,P6S_UW)

4. write selected parts of BA thesis with the application of formal guidelines and proper stylistic and linguistic elements. (k-U-3,P6S_UW)

Social competences

Graduate is ready to:

5. use their writing skills to describe the results of their research and literature review. (k-K-1, P6S_KK )

6. respond critically in a written form to other academic texts. (k-K-3, P6S_KR)

Methods of evaluation:

1) 70% - 2 summaries and 2 paraphrases written in class (outcomes: 1, 2,3,4,5,6)

2) 30% 2 grammatical tests written in class (outcomes: 1,2)

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Criteria of evaluation:

grade 2,0 (fail): 0–59%

grade 3,0 (average): 60–68%

grade 3,5 (plus average): 69–76%

grade 4,0 (good): 77–84%

grade 4,5 (plus good): 85–92%

grade 5,0 (very good): 93–100%