230728 Englisch: English Academic Writing II (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

Students must complete two writing projects to receive LPs. Students will do several revisions of their texts before the projects are completed.

Project #1: A comparative summary based on an article comparing several aspects of US and German society. Selection of information, organization, structure and writing style will be stressed during this project.

Project #2: Writing an abstract for an academic paper describing the cultural elements evident in the academic writing styles of Germany, the US, and France. In preparation students will read, analyze and rewrite multiple abstracts taken from published academic papers. Emphasis is on both reading and writing skills. Students must first evaluate, analyze and extract the most important information from a 2500 word text, and then assemble and write that information into a very concise abstract of 300 words that accurately describes the research describe in the longer text.

Students should expect to spend between 1-2 hours each week on their writing and homework exercises. A weekly homework script will be used which contains the reading and writing assignments as well as problem exercise sets on paraphrasing, revision, editing and rewriting techniques as used in English academic writing.

Please note that weekly participation in the (weekly) Friday class sessions is required. Students who will miss more than 3 classes should consider waiting to take this course in a future semester. Individual Zoom conferences will take place during the semester to discuss the writing and revisions of the writing assignments.

-- Bitte beachten Sie, dass dieser Kurs nur online verfügbar sein wird. Alle Lehrveranstaltungen werden mit Zoom und Lernrnraum+ durchgeführt.
-- Please note that this course will be online only. All lessons will be given using Zoom and Lernrnraum plus.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

"Academic Writing II" teaches the university-level native-speaker approach to academic writing in English.
This course requires considerable determination, self-discipline and persistence. Students are asked to do a lot of highly-focused writing homework throughout the semester.

-> After you register on the EkVV for the course, download and complete the questionnaire at https://robertcthomas.com/uni-writing-i-ii-questionnaire/ and send it to robert.thomas@uni-bielefeld.de

-> If you are unsure whether Writing I or Writing II would be best for you this coming semester, there is a SELF PRE-TEST available at https://robertcthomas.com/uni-writing-i-ii-questionnaire/

Students signing up for this should have previous experience with revision, editing and rewriting texts in English. An English reading level of B2+ is recommended.

Note: this course will take place entirely online. A C-test (placement test) result is not required for this course.