Academic Writing Skills (2cr)

Objectives (course unit)

After this course students can
-organize their text so that it is coherent and easy to follow
-apply the typical features of academic style and vocabulary in their own thesis
-analyze the structure of academic texts to find topic sentences and transition words
-paraphrase and summarize their reading and use citations to justify their own argumentation
-write a logical and coherent thesis abstract

Content (course unit)

Structure and organization of texts
Academic language and style
Praphrasing ans summarizing
Literature review
Discussing Results
Thesis abstract

Prerequisites (course unit)

English at level B2

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

PASS
The student's text is well-organized and coherent.
It is academic in style and vocabulary.
Their own voice is clear.
They use referencing to support and justify their own argumentation and findings.
They edit their text based on feedback and give constructive feedback to fellow students.
FAIL
The student's text is disorganized and difficult to follow.
It suffers from register clashes and poor structure.
The literature review is mainly a summary of other writers' ideas and texts.
Poor referencing technique doesn't make clear which is the student's voice, which is borrowed from somebody else.
The student doesn't utilize feedback and is not able to give constructive feedback.

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

PASS
The student's text is well-organized and coherent.
It is academic in style and vocabulary.
Their own voice is clear.
They use referencing to support and justify their own argumentation and findings.
They edit their text based on feedback and give constructive feedback to fellow students.
FAIL
The student's text is disorganized and difficult to follow.
It suffers from register clashes and poor structure.
The literature review is mainly a summary of other writers' ideas and texts.
Poor referencing technique doesn't make clear which is the student's voice, which is borrowed from somebody else.
The student doesn't utilize feedback and is not able to give constructive feedback

Location and time

Available online for free access anytime

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

Self-study and peer feedback online

Learning materials

in Tabula

Content scheduling

Structure and organization of academic texts
Academic style and language
Literature review
Discussing your results
Writing your abstract

Completion alternatives

You can either do 1cr by completing the first three lessons, or 2 cr by completing all the lessons. You can also only use this course only a s knowledge resource without doing any of the tasks and not gaining any credits.

Further information

You can either do 1cr by completing the first three lessons, or 2 cr by completing all the lessons. You can also only use this course only a s knowledge resource without doing any of the tasks and not gaining any credits.
There is little facilitation on this course. Students give feedback to and support each other.

Assessment criteria - pass/fail (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Written tasks and giving feedback to peer students. ’Pass’ when all the tasks have been successfully completed including required feedback to peers.
The course has an activity tracking feature on in Moodle.