Academic writing 1

Within Academic writing students learn about flexible and situationally appropriate usage of language in writing, including grammatical correctness and stylistic appropriateness, as well as appropriate usage of mechanisms of text organization and structuring,

Academic writing 1 aims at developing academic writing skills necessary to skilfully write academic texts, including systematic research practices, using library sources, paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources (MLA/APA) to avoid plagiarism.

Academic writing 1

1 ECTS – 30 class participation hours

1 ECTS – 15 hours for class preparation: readings and simple take-home assignments for class discussion, 15 hours of consultation

1 ECTS –5 hours of library research (searching and evaluating sources), 20 hours for preparing graded assignments

MS Teams

A. obligatory reading (to get a credit):

Adams-Tukiendorf, M., & Rydzak, D. (2003). Developing writing skills: A manual for EFL students. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego.

Bailey, S. (2003). Academic writing: practical guide for students. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

used for self-study

Cory, H. (1999). Advanced writing with English in use. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sullivan, K. E. (1998). Paragraph practice: writing the paragraph and the short composition. New York: Macmillan.

Coffin, C., Curry, M. J., Goodman, S., Hewings, A., Lillis, T. M, & Swann, J. (2003). Teaching academic writing: A guide for higher education. London: Routledge.

Jordan, R. R. (1999). Academic writing course: Study skills in English. Edinburgh: Pearson Education.

Knowledge

Students:

1. have basic knowledge about the significance of the humanities, particularly the discipline of philology, in the system of scientific disciplines, about their research subjects as well as their methodological specificity(K_W01)

2. have basic knowledge about the significance of the study of language and communication within the discipline of philology, about their research subjects as well as their methodological specificity(K_W02)

3. have a systematic detailed knowledge of current research in linguistics, discourse analysis, social communication, media studies, as well as other related disciplines and their research orientations (K_W07)

Skills

Students can:

4. search for, analyze, select, evaluate and use information collected from various sources and presented in various media (K_U01)

5. apply the terminology, theoretical frameworks, research paradigms and methodological approaches of linguistics and discouse studies (including those of semiotics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, stylistics and rhetoric), as well as communication studies and media studies (K_U04)

Social competences

Students:

6. recognize priorities and objectives in self-study, (individual and group) assignments and research (K_K06)

7. approach public communications in an analytic and critical way(K_K07)

Graded written assignments and critical responses

paragraph writing (summary, paraphrase, synthesis) - 50%

section planning and documenting sources - 20%

in class text analysis and evaluation - 15%

in class or self-study error correction - revising - 15%

Criteria of evaluation:

60% = 3

80% = 4

100% = 5