XENB0007 Master’s Thesis Support (2 cr)

Course description

The course is intended for Master's degree students, especially in the English-taught programmes, at the start or during their Thesis writing process. Individual and collaborative work is required, during which students reflect not only on their own work but also on the work of their peers.

The course aims to further develop and enhance the students’ skills in the key themes:

• academic literacies in their chosen field, while increasing their awareness of the benefits of a process-based approach to academic writing and conventions,
• information search and management,
• critical reading and writing as well as academic standards and field-specific conventions in written and spoken academic communication.
• reporting research in various written and spoken forms, especially in writing the master’s thesis. 

• Understand and apply the principles of academic integrity such as ethical use of sources 
• Produce scientific argumentation where the author’s voice is visible
• Improve their own writing with the help of different tools and peer feedback 
• Understand the conventions of thesis writing and produce an academic text based on them 
• Discuss their research in a clear and concise manner, taking into account the needs of their audience 

Compulsory for some degrees programmes, check your degree programme requirements.