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Course Catalog 2013-2014
KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr |
Person responsible
Richard Van Camp, Sari Isokääntä
Lessons
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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
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| 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 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:
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 |
| For TUT/UTA students studying biotechnology/bimedical engineering and simultaneously enrolled in the course Tissue Engineering. |