This is a hands-on course, designed to enhance your proficiency in academic writing in English. The curriculum is structured around the four key features of academic writing: referencing, objectivity, complexity and formal structure. Through a combination of theoretical discussions, practical exercises and writing assignments, you will develop the essential skills required for producing high-quality academic texts.
1. Referencing Skills
· Avoiding plagiarism through proper citation practices
· Paraphrasing and summarising
2. Objectivity Strategies
· Utilising hedging and boosting language
· Maintaining a balanced and unbiased tone
· Recognising and avoiding subjective language in academic writing
3. Complexity in Writing
· Mastering reporting and evaluative language, as well as formal lexis
· Employing signposting for clear structure and coherence
· Using appropriate language for recommendations and research implications
4. Formal Structure
· Crafting effective introductions, conclusions and thesis statements
· Constructing well-developed paragraphs
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Understand the importance of ethical citation practices to avoid plagiarism.
- Identify and eliminate subjective language from academic writing.
- Enhance the use of language for reporting, evaluating, recommending, highlighting the implications of your research etc.
- Create compelling introductions, conclusions and thesis statements.
- Construct clear and focused paragraphs
- Write reader-friendly research papers and dissertations in English, following the most up-to-date principles of academic writing.
- Dozent/in: Monica Hoogstad