Academic writing 2

obowiązkowe

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

Deepening the students’ knowledge of such writing skills as quoting and reference-making (according to MLA/APA 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. Composing final versions of BA theses

2. Broadening the knowledge of selected style-sheet guidelines (MLA/APA)

3. Advanced exercises in in-text citations and quotations

4. Compiling the final BA bibliography

5. Advanced exercises in paraphrasing and summarising

6. Advanced exercises in using primary and secondary sources

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. main methods of analysis and interpretation of culture products, in the studied disciplines, including theories and research schools within English philology (k-W-4)

Skills

Graduate can:

2. use the terminology and take theoretical standpoints resulting from English studies (k-U-1)

3. rarecognize different types of texts in order to perform their critical analysis and assess their relevance and impact in cultural processe (k-U-2)

4. use arguments and formulate logical conclusions based on studies of other autho (k-U-3)

Social competences

Graduate is ready to:

5. prioritize the implementation of various tasks related to studying and professional wor (k-K-1)

6. accept linguistic and cultural differences and recognize them as natural vocationalfactors. (k-K-3)

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%