Research Writing

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This course will be a workshop and project-oriented course in scientific writing, and it will extend on the principles of academic writing covered in Academic English for the Second Year II. In particular, students will search for academic papers and learn to identify relevant studies, as well as practice summarizing and precision writing.

Academic Spoken English I & II, Academic Written English I & II, Academic English for the Second Year I & II

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None. All readings will be provided in class by the instructor or found by the students.

Week 1: Class Introduction
Week 2: Scientific writing
Week 3: Searching for journal articles
Week 4: Scientific methodology
Week 5: Summarizing, paraphrasing, and plagiarism
Week 6: Methods
Week 7: Writing precisely
Week 8: Introduction and literature review
Week 9: Peer review
Week 10: Results
Week 11: Discussion
Week 12: Brevity activities
Week 13: Titles and abstracts
Week 14: Final Presentations & self-evaluations
Week 15: Feedback and comments
*Schedule subject to change

Students are expected to spend at least one hour each week preparing for the upcoming class, as well as reviewing materials from the previous lesson.

Active participation: 40%
Writing assignments: 30%
Presentations: 30%

By appointment.

This class will be taught entirely in English.
Students are required to attend the first class session in order to receive important information about the course from the instructor. Students who miss the first day without prior approval must first contact the instructor for permission to join the class.

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