Writing Practice 2

obligatory courses

Classroom

The aim of this course is to teach the basics of writing academic papers in English. The curriculum includes a range of relevant topics, such as the structure and types of paragraphs, methods of maintaining text unity and coherence, and writing short critical texts.

The aim of this course is to teach the basics of paragraph and essay structure in academic English. The curriculum includes a range of relevant topics, such as the structure of paragraphs (topic sentence, support sentences) and types of paragraphs (body, introductory, concluding, transitional) as well as effective ways of linking paragraphs in order to maintain coherence and unity of an essay. The course discusses various writing techniques that result in different types of composition of an essay, such as narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation. It presents the tactics and ethics of constructing a reasonable argument and learn to discern and avoid fallacious argumentative tactics (hasty generalizations, false analogies, non sequitur, post hoc, ad hominem, etc.). It also discusses formal register in writing, the use of formal vocabulary and linking, and writing critical summaries and response paragraphs.

1. Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. Rules for Writers. 10th ed., Macmillan, 2022.

2. Hartley, James. Academic Writing and Publishing: A Practical Handbook. Routledge, 2008.

3. Macpherson, Robin. English for Writers and Translators. PWN, 2012.

4. Miller, Morton A. Reading and Writing Short Essays. 3rd ed., Random House, 1987.

5. MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association, 2016.

6. MLA Handbook. 9th ed., Modern Language Association, 2021.

7. Oshima, Alice and Anne Hogue. Writing Academic English. 4th ed., Longman, 2006.

8. Purdue Onine Writing Lab (owl.purdue.edu).

K_U03 The student can recognise, analyse, and interpret various types of English texts; can anchor them in the general historic-cultural context; can conduct their analysis with specialist terminology and adequate methods.

K_U06 The student can prepare a written work in English with the use of typical methodology of English studies.

K_U08 The student can communicate with the use of various communication channels and techniques with experts in selected scientific fields.

K_U13 The student can access and gather information independently, and can develop skills with the help of adequate sources.

Participation in class (20%), writing assignments in class according to instructions (40%), returning homework assignments on time (40%). A maximum of three absences are allowed.