Course details
Writing for Academic Purposes
JA6 Acad. year 2006/2007 Winter semester
Writing course for postgraduate and intermediate students.Various writing skills are trained and developed during the course: taking notes, summary, reports and articles, description of a process or instrument.
Guarantor
Language of instruction
Completion
Time span
- 13 hrs lectures
- 13 hrs exercises
Department
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Ability to distinguish various writing styles,reconstruct the text on the base of taken notes, write a summary, a report, article and also make a good presentation.
Learning objectives
Acquiring different skills necessary for writing: reading comprehension and summary, controlled writing, free composition and presentation. Note: this is a two-semester course
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge to be able in active conversation.
Study literature
- Sparling, D.: English or Czenglish?, Praha, SPN, 1989
- Hladký, J.: Zrádná slova v angličtině, Praha, SPN, 1990
Fundamental literature
- McArthur, T.: The Written Word. A course in controlled composition. Oxford University Press, 1990
- Maley, A.: Writing Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate. Oxford Supplementary Skills. OUP, 1990
Syllabus of lectures
- Basic writing styles
- Informal writing style
- Formal writing style
- General formal writing style
- Specialized-style characteristic
- Characteristics of general-style article
- Characteristics of specialized-style article
- Specialized writing style
- Writing a report
- Writing an article
- Writing an essay
- Writing up your notes
- Autumn semester test written
- Main features of essay
- Means of connecting ideas
- Organizing a paragraph
- Using direct and indirect speech
- Using quotations and references
- Effective taking notes
- Organizing a passage
- Characteristics of summary
- Writing a summary
- Keeping logical order in the text construction
- Basic features of description
- Exploiting source materials
- Spring semester test written
Syllabus of numerical exercises
- Tense system in English
- How to use tenses properly
- Kinds of sentences
- Relative pronouns
- Using participles
- Analysis of sentences
- Uses of the comma
- The right word in the right place
- Contrasts
- Negative prefixes
- Conjunctions and relative pronouns
- Articles
- Autumn semester test written
- Expressing possibilities
- Causes and effects
- Compound words
- Direct and indirect speech
- Personal pronouns used impersonally
- The phrasal verb
- Conditional sentences
- Various uses of the passive voice
- Contrast within a sentence
- Derived words
- Simple and complex sentences
- General sentence synthesis
- Spring semester test written
Progress assessment
- Active participation in the seminars
- Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks
- Success at the written semester test (min. 50%)
Controlled instruction
- 75% attendance
- Active participation in the seminars
- Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks