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Course Catalog 2014-2015
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.
The course is only intended for degree students
Person responsible
Richard Van Camp, Sari Isokääntä
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| KIE-34106 2014-14 |
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| KIE-34106 2014-11 |
Requirements
Regular attendance (min. 75%), active participation and successful completion of course assignments as well as an end-of-course quiz/short exam.
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, plus an end-of-course quiz/short exam.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| This group is only for TUTA or TIJO students concurrently enrolled in Strategic Management. | |||
| This group is only for TUTA or TIJO students concurrently enrolled in Strategic Management. | |||
| This group is only for TUTA or TIJO students concurrently enrolled in TLO-32020 Business and Competitive Intelligence. | |||
| This implementation is exclusively for students of biotechnology/biomedical engineering who are concurrently enrolled in the course Tissue Engineering. | |||
| This group is integrated with SGN-16006 Bachelor's Laboratory course in Signal Processing. Only students enrolled in this course may simultaneously take this writing course. | |||
| This group is especially for MSc students who will be writing a thesis in English (next year it will be offered as Thesis Writing) | |||
| This is a new pilot online version of Academic Writing. This implementation is suggested for undergraduate students (not first year) and may be taken instead of Written Communication as the second foreign language requirement. | |||
| Period 4 course |