Academic Writing

Objective

The main focus of this course is the steps and process for writing an academic research paper. Students will learn how to engage with scholarly sources effectively and incorporate them into their own texts. It also involves being critical and making judgments about the worth of sources of information that are used in the different research papers.

Outcomes

• Knowledge and Comprehension
• Identify concepts, facts, and methodologies related to academic writing.
• Skills
• Apply the stylistic conventions and skills of academic writing.
• Present information effectively in academic writing.
• Values
• Demonstrate self-discipline, ethical standards, and integrity in academic writing.

Content

• * The nature and process of academic writing. (Introduction).
• The importance of writing 
• The nature of academic writing 
• Academic writing as argument (analysing- synthesising- applying- evaluating)
• he Process of writing
• *Planning & structuring your writing
• Essays
• Practical reports 
• Posters 
• Dissertations
• * Composing
• Composing your first draft 
• Writing to a prompt/ freewriting (techniques)
• Managing your composing
• * Citing, referencing, and avoiding plagiarism.
• Styles of citing and referencing
• Citing and referencing and academic integrity 
• Using citations and quotes 
• Mentioning, summarising, paraphrasing, or quoting. 
• Plagiarism 
• *Reviewing and editing your work.
• Structure and argument 
• Paragraphs 
• Sentences
• Grammar
• Tenses
• Punctuation 
• Spelling
• Presentations

Textbook

• Primary Sources:
• Marron, L. (2019). Palgrave Study Skills: Success in Academic Writing, Trevor Day, Palgrave MacMillan, UK/USA, (2018), ISBN 978-1-352-00204-1.
• Smalley, Regina, Ruetten & Kozyrev, Joann (2011). Refining Composition Skills: Academic Writing and Grammar (6th ed.). Heinle ELT. 
• Secondary Sources:
• Hacker, D., & Sommers, N. (2011). A Writer's Reference with Writing in the Disciplines. Macmillan.

Course ID: ENGL 301