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Course Catalog 2013-2014

KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr

Additional information

When a course is over-subscribed, i.e. there are more sign-ups than places on the course, then we enrol the required number of students according to the sign-up time and target group. Students on the sign-up / waiting list have to be present on the first day of the course to be sure of retaining their place.

Person responsible

Richard Van Camp, Sari Isokääntä

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-01 Monday 10 - 14, K2242
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-04 Friday 10 - 12, K2117A
Wednesday 14 - 16, K2117A
Lectures
 3 h/week

 

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-06 Wednesday 16 - 19, K2113
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-08 Wednesday 10 - 12, K2117A
Lectures

 
 2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-05 Wednesday 9 - 12, K2119A
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-07 Tuesday 10 - 12, K2113
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-09 Wednesday 10 - 11, TB 111 - Joint opening session with SGN-16006
Wednesday 10 - 11, TB 111 - joint session with SGN-16006
Wednesday 10 - 11, No class today - assignment on Moodle
Wednesday 10 - 12, K2114A
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-10 Tuesday 10 - 12, K2116
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-11 Monday 12 - 14, K2117A
Monday 12 - 14, K2115A
Monday 12 - 14, K2113

Study type Hours Time span Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
2 + 2 h/week
14.08.2013 - 11.09.2013
KIE-34106 2013-03 Thursday 10 - 12, K2116

Requirements

Regular attendance (min. 75%), active participation and successful completion of course assignments.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will have an awareness of sentence and paragraph structure, a sense of the organization of an academic paper from introduction to conclusion, and an understanding of the stylistic aspects of written academic discourse, including formality and concision. Additionally, the student will be aware of the most important principles of citation. He or she will be able to produce an academic text in English, applying some of the basic principles and conventions of academic discourse in his or her own writing.

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.     

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

Active participation and completing course assignments and an end of course quiz/ short exam.

Assessment scale:

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

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr KIE-3377 Scientific Writing in English, 3 cr  
KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr KIE-3376 Technical Writing in English, 3 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
KIE-34106 2013-03 Group 3        
KIE-34106 2013-01 This group is only for participants in the International Master's Degree Program in Materials Science.        
KIE-34106 2013-04 This group is only for students of Biotechnology/ Biomedical engineering, and the course is integrated with Tissue Engineering. You have to take course ELT-70100 Introduction to Tissue Engineering simultaneously.        
KIE-34106 2013-06 This group is for students enrolled simultaneously in Tomi Nokelainen's Strategic Management course.        
KIE-34106 2013-08 Group 8        
KIE-34106 2013-05 This course is integrated with TLO-32020 Liiketoimintatiedon hallinta.        
KIE-34106 2013-07 Group 7        
KIE-34106 2013-09 This group is only for students simultaneously enrolled in Signal Processing SGN-16006 in periods 3 and 4, 2014.        
KIE-34106 2013-10 Group 10        
KIE-34106 2013-11 Group 11        

Last modified28.08.2013