13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

1. CHARACTERISTICS AND TYPES OF ACADEMIC TEXTS
Students’ experience with academic writing – characteristics and genres of academic writing – register and style – abbreviations, initialisms and acronyms
2. RESEARCH ARTICLES: FORMAT + WRITING PROCESS
Format of typical research articles – the process of writing articles – phrases for defining – relative clauses
3. THE INTRODUCTION
Characteristics of an Introduction section – past simple vs present perfect simple – phrases for classifying – phrases for describing cause and effect
4. THE LITERATURE REVIEW
Characteristics of a literature review – phrases for being critical – phrases for giving examples – referencing, quoting and paraphrasing
5. VOCABULARY AND SPELLING
Academic vocabulary – confusable words – UK vs US English – dictionaries and corpora
6. MATERIALS AND METHODS
Characteristics of a Materials and Methods section – the passive voice – passive vs active in research articles
7. RESULTS
Characteristics of a Results section – phrases for describing trends – visuals – phrases for comparing and contrasting
8. COHERENCE AND LINKING
Giving a text coherence and clarity – summarizing and previewing sections – linking words and when not to use them – avoiding vagueness and confusion
9. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
Characteristics of Discussion and Conclusion sections – phrases for describing quantities – modal verbs for deduction – hedging
10. TITLES AND HEADINGS
Titles, headings and subheadings – capitalization – the definite and indefinite article
11. ABSTRACTS
Characteristics of an abstract – conciseness (avoiding wordiness) – gerunds vs infinitives
12. REVISING AND EDITING
Revising and editing – punctuation – subject-verb agreement