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

Course´s person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 2	Per 1, 2 : Tuesday 12 - 14, K2113
Implementation 3	Per 1, 2 : Friday 8 - 10, K2113
Implementation 4	Per 4, 5 : Wednesday 14 - 16, K2113
Implementation 5	Per 4, 5 : Friday 12 - 14, K2114A
Implementation 6	Per 4, 5 : Wednesday 12 - 14, K2119A
Implementation 7	Per 2 : Tuesday 14 - 18, K2113

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

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 2	Ryhmä 2: luennot ti 12-14	Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 3	Ryhmä 3: luennot pe 8-10	Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 4	Ryhmä 4: luennot ke 14-16	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 5	Ryhmä 5: luennot pe 12-14	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 6	Ryhmä 6: luennot ke 12-14	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 7	Ryhmä 7: luennot ti 14-18. Ryhmä on tarkoitettu KV-maisteriohjelman opiskelijoille.

Last modified	22.12.2008
Modifier	Timo Lepistö