Course Catalog 2009-2010 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Monday 12 - 16, K2116	DI-Opiskelijat International Students Jatko-opiskelijat Kandiopiskelijat

Requirements

Active participation and completion of the course assignments.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

-

Learning outcomes

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; developing and presenting a thesis statement; paragraph organization; coherence.
2.	The major stylistic and structural aspects of academic language: sentence structures, parallelism, logical connectives, word choice, register, punctuation.
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

Additional information about prerequisites
The students must have a grade 3 or higher from one of the prerequisite courses.

Correspondence of content

Additional information

CEF level: C1

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Group 1: Lectures Mon 12-16 K2116	Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	29.03.2010
Modifier	Maija-Leena Perttunen