(in Polish) Academic writing and speaking 3800-KOG-AWS
Course topics:
- Academic presentations
Students learn how to structure and successfully deliver an academic presentation.
- Giving credit to others
Students learn to distinguish between different kinds of input others might have into their work and give those people appropriate credit (proportional to the input provided).
- Style
Students learn about the most important stylistic requirements for writing an academic paper: formality, efficiency, clarity, coherence.
- Paragraph as the basic unit of composition
Students discover the structure of paragraphs and gain knowledge of how to interconnect them; this is a further exploration of the requirement of coherence.
- Formatting
Students become aware of the details they ought to pay attention to when formatting an academic manuscript, in order for the manuscript to look professional.
- Writing an abstract
Students learn how to compose an academic abstract.
- Writing a research report.
Students learn how to communicate the results of a research project via a research report.
- The structure of an argumentative essay.
Students discover the structure of an argumentative essay.
- Designing a research poster.
Students learn how to design a concise and attractive poster to help publicize their research.
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Learning outcomes
The acquired knowledge:
- the student knows how to cite information sources without plagiarizing [K_W19]
- the student learns what is register in academic language, and learns the importance of using the right register in spoken and written academic language [K_W10]
The acquired skills:
- the student can construct and deliver clear, coherent, and efficient academic presentations in English [K_U19, K_U20, K_U21, K_U22, K_U23]
- the student is able to paraphrase and summarize in English [K_U11, K_U21, K_U22, K_U23]
- the student is able to argument for and against a certain idea in English [K_U05, K_U06, K_U23]
- the student can present findings of a research project in English [K_U20, K_U23]
The acquired social competences:
- the student is able to participate in an academic discussion / Q&A session in English [K_K10, K_K11]
- the student can adroitly manage public speaking situations [K_K09]
- the student knows how to express their thoughts in English in a way which is clear and comprehensible to different kinds of audiences [K_K02, K_K07]
- the student can tackle collaborative assignments in English [K_K03, K_K04, K_K08]
Bibliography
The course is based on the following literature, but the students need not read these books:
D. Bell, Passport to Academic Presentations, Reading, Garnet Education 2008
L. J. Zwier, Building Academic Vocabulary, Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press 2002
A.P. Martinich, Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, Third Edition, Padstow, Cornwall, Blackwell Publishing 2005
E. Van Geyte, Writing, Learn to Write Better Academic Essays, London, Collins 2013
A. Stillman, Grammatically Correct: The Writer’s Essential Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style, Usage and Grammar, Cincinnati, Ohio, Writer’s Digest Books 1997
Komitet Etyki w Nauce Polskiej Akademii Nauki, Dobre obyczaje w nauce. Zbiór zasad i wytycznych, 2001