Delivered at:: Department of Philology

Course type:: Compulsory course

When:: 3 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Ростовцев-Попель Александр Александрович

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Abstract

In this course, students are introduced to styles, genres, and formatting conventions of academic writing in English. Lectures, seminar activities, peer reading and assessment as well as other written assignments engage students and course instructor(s) in a network of face-to-face and online interactions, teamwork, and feedback.

Learning Objectives

To equip students with essential academic writing skills in English and creating a functional peer writing and reading community in and beyond classroom

Expected Learning Outcomes

Maintains civilized and efficient forms of collegial communication.
Summarizes and paraphrases pieces of academic writing in the research field.
Writes an abstract for a future and completed project.
Collects and selects bibliographical references and formats them in accordance with a particular citation style.
Consolidates reading in a chosen research area.
Reviews and assesses other writers’ work.
Revises and (re)formats a research essay in accordance with given structural and layout requirements
Discusses the content, structure, and academic merits of other people’ s writing

Course Contents

Preliminaries
Advanced writing

Assessment Elements

Participation
Students are expected to attend all lectures and contribute to discussions. They need to be prepared for class by having completed their home assignments, whether reading or writing, and participate actively in class activities, group and/or individual. Example questions for class discussions, tasks, and activities.
Annotation
As a mid-term paper towards the end of Module 1, each student submits a written annotation of a published research article of the student’s choice, which corresponds to the student’s individual research interests. The annotation cannot paraphrase the original author’s abstract and must include a critical (analytic) component: apart from summarizing the original argument, the student’s interpretation of and attitude to the annotated article is to be expressed in a civilized and well-argued manner. The title of the annotation is the full bibliographical reference to the annotated source, formatted in accordance with a particular citation style. Direct quotations are not allowed: ideas must be paraphrased. The word limit is 300-500 words.
Essay
On or before the first day of exam period at the end of Module 2, students submit a Word document of an academic research essay in English that they have authored. The essay could be either written from scratch or adapted from an essay they have written earlier, on any occasion. Either way, the essay must follow these requirements: (i) size: 2,000-5,000 words; (ii) layout and formatting: MLA/APA/Chicago; (iii) references: list of 3-10 sources, 50-100% English; (iv) structure: (sub-)sectioned and paragraphed, with (sub-)section titles preferable; (v) content: original (written by the student and containing no more than 70% of direct quotations) and relevant to discipline of major (linguistics or literature studies, with extensions to cultural studies and interdisciplinary approaches to language and literature). If the essay is being/was submitted to a different course, it must state so explicitly; even so, it must be fully revised to comprise with the Academic Writing (English) requirements (i-v).

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.25 * Annotation + 0.25 * Essay + 0.25 * Participation + 0.25 * Participation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Academic writing : a handbook for international students, Bailey, S., 2010

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Academic Writing Skills 3, Student's Book, 140 p., Chin, P., Reid, S., Wray, S., Yamazaki, Y., 2014

Authors

KESSEL KSENIIA VITALEVNA

Bachelor’s Programme 'Philology'

Contacts

Logic and Stylistics of Modern Academic Text