FF:RLDrA06 Writing Skills - Course Information
RLDrA06 Writing Skills in English
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Martin Lang, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Dr. phil. Anna Michalík Kvíčalová, MA (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Matouš Vencálek
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Study of Religions (Eng.) (programme FF, D-PH4)
- Study of Religions (programme FF, D-PH4) (2)
- Study of Religions (programme FF, D-RL_)
- Study of Religions (programme FF, D-RLA_)
- Course objectives
- The course gives students intensive training in academic writing, with special emphasis on academic writing in English. It thus introduces some general conventions of English-language academic style and its special phraseology.
- Learning outcomes
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- write a well-structured academic text with clear composition and argument;
- analyze critically the plot and argument of other scholars' academic articles;
- use some important idioms widespread in English-language academic writing.
- Syllabus
- Writing a summary or abstract.
- Devising a good plot.
- Situating one's research persuasively in the context of the current state of research (writing a literature review).
- Building the argument: logic, composition, important conjunctions.
- Teacher's individual feedback on shorter texts by students.
- Teaching methods
- Writing texts, seminars, written and oral feedback.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment of the style and language of:
- summary/abstract (10 %);
- literature review (20%);
- a passage from the central argument (70 %).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2025/RLDrA06