Scientific reading and writing (1cr)
Course unit code: S107D-10
General information
- Credits
- 1 cr
Objectives
The students
- can seek for English professional publications in electronic databases and use them as sources for their Bachelor's thesis
- know the structure and special characteristics of scientific text and can write an abstract for the Bachelor's thesis
Content
- authentic scientific articles
- structure, style and vocabulary of scientific text
- reading techniques
- summarising and references
- structure and grammar of an abstract
- passive voice and other impersonal expressions, co-ordination and pronoun references, word order