Academic Writing
In this course, participants – who may be working on scholarly papers, research or dissertation projects – will have the opportunity to strengthen their command of written English using published materials in their own disciplines.
This seminar will focus on various components of scholarly writing, including style and language, argument structure, grammar etc. using sample articles, abstracts and proposals. Participants are strongly advised to take along excerpts of personally written articles for discussion and analysis.
Topics:
- planning and organising a piece of academic text
- the importance of introductions and conclusions
- paragraph structure
- writing a topic sentence
- developing ideas and arguments
- academic vocabulary
- summarising and paraphrasing
- time: 10.00-17.00
- date: 18./19. March 2013
- location: VDP 3, SR 1.04, Halle
- language: English
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