English courses

Academic Writing (Master Year 1 / Fall)

Academic Writing (Master Year 1 / Fall)

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Résumé

Master in English and American Language, Literature and History / Faculty of Liberal Arts

Details

Conditions of submission
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Course Information

Master year 1 12 HOURS
Fall Semester 2 ECTS
Lectures (CM)
Professor: Gérard MELIS
Course Code: FDL_AN_M1_SI_ECR_UNIV

Introduction

This course aims at providing students with specific skills for academic essay writing in the field of social sciences: paragraph writing, presentation of the topic, linguistic tools (grammatical revision, the complex sentence, linking terms).

Objectives

The objective of the course is to give students the ability to write consistent texts and complex sentences.

Admission

Prerequisites training

- Intermediate knowledge of grammatical structures in English
- Basic writing skills
- Intermediate lexical knowledge

Program

Methods of Instruction

- writing exercises (how to construct a paragraph within a consistent text)
- use of link words
- exercises on complex forms using a brochure online.
 

Assessment and Final Grade

Homework and/or tests about writing texts and grammatical structures.
 

Course Requirements

Students should be able to write an essay dealing with a particular topic seen from a personal
point of view and using and confronting arguments and to use complex sentences