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Course Catalog 2013-2014
KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr |
Person responsible
Richard Van Camp, Sari Isokääntä
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| KIE-34106 2013-02 | |
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| KIE-34106 2013-03 |
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. |
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)
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| This is a special implementation of the course beginning in mid-August. This implementation is especially for participants in International Master's programmes at TUT who are about to begin the second year of studies and, hence, the writing of the thesis. You may also sign up for this course in advance through the 2012-2013 summer offerings. | |||
| This is a special implementation of the course beginning in mid-August. This implementation is especially for participants in International Master's programmes at TUT who are about to begin the second year of studies and, hence, the writing of the thesis. You may also sign up for this course in advance through the 2012-2013 summer offerings. | |||
| This group is only for participants in the International Master's Degree Program in Material's Science. | |||
| This group is for students of Biotechnology/ Biomedical engineering, and the course is integrated with Tissue Engineering. | |||
| This group is for students enrolled simultaneously in Tomi Nokelainen's Strategic Management course. | |||
| For TUT/UTA students studying biotechnology/bimedical engineering and simultaneously enrolled in the course Tissue Engineering. | |||
| This course is integrated with a course in Information Management (Jussi Myllärniemi). | |||
| In period 3 Mondays 12-16 | |||
| This group is only for students simultaneously enrolled in Signal Processing in periods 3 and 4, 2014. | |||