Ateneo - UPO

The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to improve their knowledge of the conventions of academic and scientific English.
The syllabus aims to cover some of the areas of scientific communication that students should master in order to successfully promote their research and write their thesis. Students will also get a chance to improve their academic English vocabulary and grammar.

The required book for the course is Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language, 2 edition; Brian Paltridge, Sue Starfield, Routledge, 2020

Learning the tools and communication conventions in the sciences provides multiple benefits to students. The course aims to teach the fundamentals of effective scientific writing from multiple perspectives. Instruction will focus primarily on the process of writing the thesis.

Students are expected to have at least a B2 level in English. The attendance recommendation for the course is 80% minimum.

Lectures: the lectures will provide theoretical guidelines and principles as well as practical examples from scientific texts and exercises to teach students how to apply the guidelines to their own work.

Please connect to the DIR page of the course: https://www.dir.uniupo.it/course/view.php?id=15855&notifyeditingon=1

Students will be evaluated on the basis of lecture attendance and participation, and a final presentation of their work.

1. Dissertation pre-writing and writing a research proposal
2. Structure of a thesis
3. Introduction
4. Review of literature/background
5. Methodology and results
6. Discussion and conclusions
7. Abstract, acknowledgements, bibliography, annex
8. Presentations

By the end of the course, students are expected to have gained a good understand of the scientific writing principles applied to the work on their thesis.