Academic writing 1

studia pierwszego stopnia

English Philology

semestr 5

studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

fakultatywne
obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties

total number of ECTS: 2

1 ECTS – 30 hours: class participation,

1 ECTS – 20 hours: preparation + 10 hours: consultations

Course description:

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

Course objectives:

- developing academic writing skills

- practicing academic referencing skills (MLA/APA)

- practicing academic discourse

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Course content:

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

7. Introduction to effective synthesising (continued in Academic Writing 2)

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

short writing practice tasks, discussion, feedback, group tasks, ICT tool/MSTeams platform

Reading list:

MLA style manual

APA style manual

Learning outcomes acc to PQR 2019

Knowledge:

Student knows and understands:

1.methods of analysis and interpretation of texts within selected traditions, theories and research schools in linguistics, literature or culture studies (k_W04/P6S_WG)

2. principles of copyright and its protection in relation to referencing academic sources, in particular in the field of English philology (k_W10/P6S_WK)

Skills

Student can:

3. use their philological knowledge in proper selection of sources and information drawn from them in the processes of evaluation, critical analysis and synthesising of that information in English (k_U02/P6S_UW)

4. use arguments and formulate logical conclusions based on studies of other authors (k_U03/P6S-UW)

Social competences

Student is ready to:

5. critically evaluate and solve problems arising from the implementation of professional tasks such as texts creation (k_K02/P6S_KK)

6. in a responsible way, exercise professional roles, including:

complying with the rules of professional ethics when using academic sources for own writing (k_K05/P6S_KR)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Summaries - 30% of the final grade (outcome: 1,3,5,6)

2. Paraphrases - 30% of the final grade (outcomes: 2,3,5,6)

3. Syntheses 20% of the final grade (learning outcomes: 1,2,4,5,6)

4. Active participation in classes including group cooperation - 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3)