Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level
Original language description
The chapter outlines the results of research focused on academic writing skills and the content and design of academic writing courses at university level. It is based on a survey carried out in bachelor and master programmes at the English department ofFaculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The survey explored the students' previous experience of academic writing and previous tuition as well as their needs and and development of writing skills at university level. The resultsshow that Czech university students mostly have previous experience in general writing but not in academic writing, which they mostly become acquianted with at university only. Therefore, they need systematic tuition with focus on the specificities of academic writing such as style, argument presentation and development, quotation styles, plagiarism, etc. Such systematic tuition should be provided both in specialized academic writing courses as well as incorporated in various other unive
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches
ISBN
9783954045822
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
123-147
Number of pages of the book
200
Publisher name
Cuvillier Verlag
Place of publication
Göttingen
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