Academic Writing in English

Doel vak

1. After successfully completing this course you will be able to write an academic text in English that demonstrates a high level of competence in the following areas:

• text structure
• coherence, cohesion and clarity
• academic style and stance specific to your field

2. In addition, you will be able to able to detect and improve problems in your own text and the texts of your peers. You will also have a clear sense of where your English is strong and of what areas you can work on to develop your expressive potential.

Inhoud vak

This course focuses on resolving linguistic issues that individual students still have in their English, and on further refining text structure, (academic) style and textual coherence. On the one hand the idea is to resolve issues that participants still have with their English, and on the other hand it is about learning to use structures that can make one's writing more 'interesting'. This course allows students to highlight and understand their individual problems better and to work on current and past writing for other courses, including their theses (if relevant).

Aanvullende informatie onderwijsvormen

Weekly seminars

Toetsvorm

Shared editing assignment (30%; learning objectives 1 and 2);
edited versions of one of your own (previously written or new) texts (70%; learning objectives 1 and 2).

In order to pass the course, all components have to be graded 5.5 or higher.

Literatuur

Hannay, M. & J.L. Mackenzie (2009). Effective Writing in English. 2nd edition. Bussum: Coutinho. There will also be separate materials posted on Canvas.

Aanvullende informatie doelgroep

Master and research master students who are relatively experienced writers and who wish to further develop the quality of their written academic English.

Overige informatie

Aanbevolen voorkennis

This course is only open to master students who already have experience in writing academic texts in English.