VV043 Academic Writing in English

Fakulta informatiky
jaro 2009
Rozsah
0/2. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Fakulta informatiky
Kontaktní osoba: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Rozvrh
Pá 27. 3. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 3. 4. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 10. 4. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 17. 4. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 24. 4. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 15. 5. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 22. 5. 10:00–12:50 B410, Pá 29. 5. 10:00–12:50 B410
Předpoklady
SOUHLAS
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
In this course, post-graduate students at the Informatics Faculty will be studying some formal aspects of writing academic articles in English. This course is designed to cover vocabulary, grammar and syntax as well as design and structure of longer articles. The course is a pre-requisite for the compulsory course Academic Writing Project (VVO58). It is intended that students will be able to use the data they have uploaded into the Informatics Corpus for the observation of language phenomena peculiar to this field.
Osnova
  • The course deals with the following language topics. 1. What is end weight? 2. In what situations is the subjunctive used in English? 3. Why are topic sentences important? 4. What is a paragraph hook? 5. What is meant by hedging? 6. What are the pros and cons of using "I" and "we" in academic writing? 7. What do we need to know about nominalisation? 8. What is the "introductory there/it"? 9. What purposes does fronting serve? 10. How do we avoid sexist language? 11. What roles do to-infinitive and -ing clauses play? 12. How do we show the relationship between statements in a sentence?
Literatura
  • HAMP-LYONS, Liz a Ben HEASLEY. Study writing : a course in writing skills for academic purposes. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 213 s. ISBN 9780521534963. info
  • ZOBEL, Justin. Writing for computer science :the art of effective communication. Singapore: Springer, 1997, xiii, 176. ISBN 981-3083-22-0. info
Metody hodnocení
Corpus study test, terminology test, a piece of writing demonstrating the language concepts taught.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2006, jaro 2008, jaro 2010, jaro 2011, jaro 2012, jaro 2013, jaro 2014, jaro 2015, jaro 2016, jaro 2017, jaro 2018, jaro 2019, jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2022, jaro 2023, jaro 2024, jaro 2025.