Interactive Syllabus

Teacher:

Mgr. Colin Kimbrell, office hours: Tuesdays, 16:15-17:00, rm. 5.55 at FSS

Course dates, time, location:

Tue 15. 2. to Tue 10. 5., 14:00-15:50, C416

Course objectives:

There is an increasing need among doctoral candidates to publish their work in various types of academic publications and engage with a wider range of academic, professional and public audiences. The goal of this course is to familiarize doctoral candidates with different approaches to scientific writing, take their academic writing skills in English to a higher level and offer them a range of tools to adapt their focus of language to address their target readers at specific, multi-disciplinary and general levels. The course addresses firstly the context of scientific writing to situate the styles of writing that doctoral candidates are working with. It will discuss aspects of clear and concise writing style, and lexical and discourse relationship patterns in academic text, along with functional perspectives for positioning and structuring information and argument in the wider scope of thesis and journal article writing.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to use academic and technical vocabulary; read and analyze texts to make use of them in writing; understand different text styles and structures; write successful titles, abstracts, paragraphs, and individual sections of a thesis or journal article; and provide and respond to peer feedback.

Teaching methods:

The course will consist of weekly seminars organised around group and individual writing tasks, problem-solving and discussion activities. It will also include online activities and peer review.

Assessment methods:
Students are expected to participate actively in seminars and peer-review tasks and to produce a portfolio of texts written during the course and an extended piece of academic writing submitted in the exam period.
1) Abstract - conference, thesis, journal article
2) Introduction - thesis/journal article
3) Other section of thesis/journal article
4) 3 peer-review writing workshops