[{"Course code":"POG0093","Version":1,"English name":"Academic writing and text awareness","Higher education credits":3.0,"Syllabus":"150","Valid from":"HT2007","Syllabus approved":"2022-01-14","Level within study regulation":"Third cycle","Subject":[{"Subject":"Other Social Science"}],"Grading scale":"Pass \/ Failed","Language":"Swedish","Entry requirements":"Applicants must be admitted to PhD studies.","Objectives":"In this course the overall objective is for participants to learn how to efficiently\n\ncommunicate research in academic writing, by understanding the writing process in relation to their own writing. After completion of the course the participants will be able to:\n\n- Explain and exemplify different writing strategies and resources for\n\nefficient writing\n\n- Apply text analysis to understand academic texts in general as well as\n\ndiscipline-specific norms and traditions\n\n- Discuss the value of critical reading and the peer-review process\n\n- Identify their own writing practices and plan for how to improve as\n\nacademic writers.","Content":"Would you like to develop your skills as an academic writer? Writing is the\n\nmost important tool for communicating science, both within and outside academia.\n\nIn this online course, participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own\n\nwriting process and text tradition, as well as find strategies and tools to improve\n\ntheir writing.\n\n\n\nThe course will be made up of lectures and workshops, self-studies and assignments. Assignments will focus on developing the participants as writers within their own writing tradition and increase self-awareness. The course also focuses on academic English (for example language correctness and efficient writing). In addition, the course will include feedback on the participants’ writing.","Examination formats":"Written and oral assignments as well as contributing to discussions in online meetings. \r\n- If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.\r\n\r\n- The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.\r\n\r\n- If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.\r\n\r\n- For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n","Organisation":[{"code":"150","Organisation":"Library"}],"Other information":"\r\n- The right to participate in teaching and\/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.\r\n\r\n- If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n"}]