XENX045 Working Towards a Structured Text (3 cr)

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Study level:

Other studies

Grading scale:

Pass - fail

Language:

English

Responsible organisation:

Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication

Curriculum periods:

2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

Description

Course description

The course focuses on writing as a process. The course introduces topics such as pre-writing strategies, planning the process, and structuring a text. Through individual and group work students will write an academic piece of text in a process-like manner using different strategies.

Main contents

Features of an academic text
Process writing
Strategies for writing
Individual and group work

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the students will be able to

set goals and work towards them as part of the writing process
understand the value of working in teams
write a structured piece of text (academic)
discuss, summarize, and formulate multilingual research information in their own words in written form

Additional information

TARGET GROUP: BA students (primarily)

PROFICIENCY LEVEL: B2

Completion methods

Method 1

Evaluation criteria:

Compulsory and active participation. Successful completion of core assignments. Final grading is based on the applicable grading scale for the course.

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Parts of the completion methods

Participation in teaching (3 cr)

Type:

Participation in teaching