Course Catalog 2008-2009 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Active participation and completion of the course assignments.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

The aim of the course is to study and practise the conventions, organization and stylistic features of academic technical writing in English through lectures, practical assignments and analysis of text samples.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	The main organizational aspects of written academic discourse: the basic structure of a research paper (introduction, main body, conclusion); developing and presenting a thesis statement; paragraph organization; coherence; summaries & abstracts.
2.	The major stylistic and structural aspects of academic language: sentence structures, parallelism, logical connectives, word choice, register, punctuation, use of modifiers.
3.	The documentation and use of secondary sources: direct quotations, paraphrasing, referencing, bibliographies, abbreviations, plagiarism.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation, completing course assignments and a final exam.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
-	Web materials						Suomi
Book	The Craft of Technical Writing	Michael Alley	0-387-94766-3		Juvenes bookstore		English
Book	Tiedettä englanniksi: akateemisen kirjoittamisen käsikirja	Eva May	951-34-0093-X		Juvenes bookstore		English
Other literature					Will be given in class		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

CEF level: C1

Last modified	22.12.2008
Modifier	Timo Lepistö