Academic Writing
In this course, students will improve their English language communicative competence; learn how to design / structure relevant coherent media texts and improve their academic writing skills. The recommended level of language proficiency is English Independent User (B1, B2). The course is directly related to other courses of the programme, such as Cultural Communication, Business English where skills of communicating in accordance to academic English standards are required. Also, it contributes to the final stage of the programme that is Thesis Writing and Defense.
The goal of mastering the discipline
To improve English language communicative competence; learn how to design / structure relevant coherent media texts and improve academic writing skills.
The skills you get
- On completion of the course, students should be able to develop relevant media texts and other media products in accordance with the English language regulations and system of signs
- • to demonstrate the ability of critical thinking and finding arguments
- • to produce comprehensive, coherent texts in writing
- • to produce written texts, which comply with academic standards
- • to explain a viewpoint on an issue that is professionally relevant giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options
- • to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity discussing the area of expertise
Topics covered
- Introduction to academic writing; Sentence types; The Paragraph; Using Outside Sources of Information Punctuation
- Introduction to Essays; Writing an abstract; Data Commentary (Explaining Visuals); Finalizing your writing
When instructed
- 4th year, 1st and 2nd semester
List of references and sourses
1. English for Academics. Book 2 / Bogolepova S. V., Gorbachev V., Shadrova E., Suchkova S., Kuznetsova L., Oschepkova T., Ivanova A., Pervukhina I.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
2. Adrian Wallwork. English for Academic Research: Vocabulary Exercises / Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
3. M.Powell. Dynamic Presentation/ Cambridge University Press, 2010 Adrian Wallwork. English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar / Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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