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Course Catalog 2013-2014

KIE-34106 Academic Writing in English, 3 cr

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 12 - 14, K2242
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-04  
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-06  
Lectures
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-07  
Lectures

 
 2 h/week

 

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-05  
Lectures

 

 
 4 h/week

 

 
KIE-34106 2013-08  
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-09  
Lectures

 

 
 2 h/week
+2 h/week

 
KIE-34106 2013-10  

Study type Hours Time span Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
2 h/week
14.08.2013 - 11.09.2013
KIE-34106 2013-02  


14.08.2013 - 11.09.2013
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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

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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 2013-02 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.        
KIE-34106 2013-03 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.        
KIE-34106 2013-01 This group is only for participants in the International Master's Degree Program in Material's Science.        
KIE-34106 2013-04 This group is for students of Biotechnology/ Biomedical engineering, and the course is integrated with Tissue Engineering.        
KIE-34106 2013-06 This group is for students enrolled simultaneously in Tomi Nokelainen's Strategic Management course.        
KIE-34106 2013-07 For TUT/UTA students studying biotechnology/bimedical engineering and simultaneously enrolled in the course Tissue Engineering.        
KIE-34106 2013-05 This course is integrated with a course in Information Management (Jussi Myllärniemi).        
KIE-34106 2013-08 In period 3 Mondays 12-16        
KIE-34106 2013-09 This group is only for students simultaneously enrolled in Signal Processing in periods 3 and 4, 2014.        
KIE-34106 2013-10        

Last modified10.03.2013