Course detail
Research Paper Seminar 1
FaVU-4RPS-1Acad. year: 2022/2023
The course consists of three parts: seminars, workshops, and individual tutorials with the research paper supervisor. In seminars, student learn the basics of academic writing, examine challenges posed by writing about practice-based research, and practice their writing skills through individual and group assignments. Regular workshops facilitate the writing process through group feedback sessions and discussions about the obstacles that students encounter while writing. Individual tutorials with the research paper supervisor focus on specific issues arising from individual research projects and take place based on individual needs of students and with a view to the completeness of their work.
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Course curriculum
2. Basics of academic writing, citation styles.
3. Writing process: deciding on a title, writing an abstract, choosing the right structure — IMRaD, non-academic and experimental approaches, the relationship between form and content.
4. Ethical considerations: inclusive language, accessibility — thinking about the reader, “situated knowledges.”
5. Writing as storytelling, storytelling as worldbuilding.
6. Publishing.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
Lykke, Nina, ed. 2014. Writing Academic Texts Differently. New York: Routledge. (EN)
Schimel, Joshua. 2012. Writing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (EN)
Strunk, William I. 1999. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson. (EN)
Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. 2009. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts: Vol. 1 of the revised and expanded edition of English in Today`s Research World. Michigan: University of Michigan Press. (EN)
Turabian, Kate L. 2007. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme FAAD Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory