230395 Academic Proficiency (S) (SoSe 2016)

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This course is designed to develop graduate-level writing, with a focus on research writing and understanding conventions of writing in your discipline.

Our Course Objectives

• To become more confident, fluent, and adept as a writer in English
• To understand writing as a process and develop a more effective writing process
• To understand texts as deeply rhetorical, situated, and following genre conventions
• To understand the structure of and rhetorical moves within academic research articles
• To better understand discipline-specific writing by investigating the genres, styles, and citations practices used within the your field
• To become more familiar with the conventions of writing with sources and strategies for avoiding plagiarism
• To become more familiar with resources that support graduate-level writing and research that are available

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A course book will be announced at the first session, and other materials will be made available online at the Moodle site for our course.

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Module Course Requirements  
23-ANG-M-AngVM1 Vertiefungsmodul 1: Cultural Exchange and Academic Proficiency VM 1.2 Academic Proficiency Study requirement
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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
British and American Studies / Master (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) MaAngVM1    

More specific information about the module and the requirements of this course can be found here.

https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/sinfo/publ/modul/27460884?lang=en

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Friday, December 11, 2015 
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Friday, February 5, 2016 
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Monday, January 11, 2016 
Type(s) / SWS (hours per week per semester)
seminar (S) /
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This lecture is taught in english
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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