FOR WHOM
This course is designed to help you (who has an English proficiency level of B2 as a minimum) write academic papers by familiarizing you with the conventions and stylistic criteria of academic genres. It will provide you with a LINGUISTIC toolkit that will enable you to meet the FORMAL expectations of academic writing assignments. You will receive individualized tasks and assistance depending on your level of academic commitment and English proficiency. It will teach you how to avoid false premises, logical errors and cognitive biases while planning your research and drafting your paper.
ASSISTANCE
For participants committing themselves to submit an English-language essay within the CEU-IUFU curriculum by the end of this term, the course can offer individualized linguistic support to develop and improve their theses. They can ask for support in the form of submitting sections of their papers for peer review. No full papers will be reviewed or corrected, though.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE TERM
After each thematic section, we will practice what we have covered. You will be expected to do online exercises, review, proofread and write short segments of texts, each focusing on a specific skill.
PASS/FAIL CRITERIA
All participants are supposed to attend the online sessions and submit in-term assignments regularly. All participants are expected to submit a mock essay (of 3-4 pages, 700-900 words) on a freely chosen topic (by late-November) to prove that they have internalized the formal and stylistic conventions of academic writing. Students with writing commitments in other IUFU courses can be exempted from writing a mock-essay if they submit substantial passages of their paper for discussion. Your writing assignments will be based on the course material (as it appears in the HANDOUTs) and on the knowledge underlying the Quizlet exercises.
EXTENSION
If there is an interest, the course will provide information on how EU legal texts are drafted, edited, and adopted, and will familiarize you with some basic EU legal concepts. Such a thematic focus could serve as an orientation for those wishing to participate in the drafting/translation of EU legal documents (prospective legal assistants, lawyer-linguists, etc.) during their professional careers. If you choose so, you can get an insight here into the different kinds of PUBLIC political and legal documents the European Parliament has drafted on all matters related to Ukraine over the past years.
This course is designed to help you (who has an English proficiency level of B2 as a minimum) write academic papers by familiarizing you with the conventions and stylistic criteria of academic genres. It will provide you with a LINGUISTIC toolkit that will enable you to meet the FORMAL expectations of academic writing assignments. You will receive individualized tasks and assistance depending on your level of academic commitment and English proficiency. It will teach you how to avoid false premises, logical errors and cognitive biases while planning your research and drafting your paper.
ASSISTANCE
For participants committing themselves to submit an English-language essay within the CEU-IUFU curriculum by the end of this term, the course can offer individualized linguistic support to develop and improve their theses. They can ask for support in the form of submitting sections of their papers for peer review. No full papers will be reviewed or corrected, though.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE TERM
After each thematic section, we will practice what we have covered. You will be expected to do online exercises, review, proofread and write short segments of texts, each focusing on a specific skill.
PASS/FAIL CRITERIA
All participants are supposed to attend the online sessions and submit in-term assignments regularly. All participants are expected to submit a mock essay (of 3-4 pages, 700-900 words) on a freely chosen topic (by late-November) to prove that they have internalized the formal and stylistic conventions of academic writing. Students with writing commitments in other IUFU courses can be exempted from writing a mock-essay if they submit substantial passages of their paper for discussion. Your writing assignments will be based on the course material (as it appears in the HANDOUTs) and on the knowledge underlying the Quizlet exercises.
EXTENSION
If there is an interest, the course will provide information on how EU legal texts are drafted, edited, and adopted, and will familiarize you with some basic EU legal concepts. Such a thematic focus could serve as an orientation for those wishing to participate in the drafting/translation of EU legal documents (prospective legal assistants, lawyer-linguists, etc.) during their professional careers. If you choose so, you can get an insight here into the different kinds of PUBLIC political and legal documents the European Parliament has drafted on all matters related to Ukraine over the past years.
- Instructor: Robert Gulyas