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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Week 1: Introduction to the course. Cohesive devices. A typical essay structure. Week 2: Plagiarism. Paraphrasing, citations. Note-taking, summary. Direct and indirect speech Week 3: Bibliographies. A typical structure of a research paper. Formal and informal language. Week 4: Classifying, general and specific, definitions, giving examples. Giving theoretical background Week 5: Methods of gathering information. Research tools.Preparing an effective questionnaire. Week 6: Describing a method/procedure of research. Academic vocabulary Week 7: Presenting results. Expressing rise and fall. Numbers. Adverbs. Quantifiers. Week 8: Commenting on results, evidence. Week 9: Implications following from the research, suggesting further research. Conclusion. Week 10: A typical structure of an abstract.A typical structure of an introduction chapter. Week 11: Buddy editing. Revision Week 12: Test Week 13: Final test analysis, giving feedback
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Multimedia supported teaching, Students' self-study, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 10 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 20 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| Students can: - express their views and attitudes and support them with arguments in writing - distinguish between formal and informal styles - use more complex grammar structures - understand instructions and provide instructions - describe activities, habits and work processes - describe events in an interesting way - choose correct language means and arrange them logically - keep principles of the correct writing procedures - understand more complex texts and find required information in them - follow and understand teaching materials presented in the target language |
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| Students can: - apply knowledge from the fields of lexicology, morphology and syntax and apply this knowledge correctly in their writing - do their research project and keep principles of academic writing when writing the project - suggest the topic of their research project and the research question(s) - compare various academic texts and choose important facts based on the principle of relevance - quote correctly, paraphrase and refer to bibliography - select such research tools that lead to answering a specific research question - explain the process of their research - describe results of their research and perform a discussion with the use of the principle of evidence - give some implications of their research project - select the correct language items to express a specific degree of certainty - predicate possible further research on the specific topic - evaluate their research project |
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| Seminar |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Self-study of literature |
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Recommended literature
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Bailey, S. Academic Writing - a handbook for international students. London, 2006.
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Hamp-Lyons, Liz; Heasley, Ben. Study writing : a course in writing skills for academic purposes : second edition. 1st ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-521-53496-8.
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