Academic English Part One - Einzelansicht

This is the first part of a two-part course which aims to improve your ability to express yourself clearly in written English and to develop a suitably coherent academic writing style. Part One concentrates mainly on structure in writing academic articles, essays and reports. We begin by examining the structure of individual paragraphs and move on to extended texts of various types (e.g. process essays, cause/effect, comparison/contrast, etc.). Particular attention is paid to connectives, i.e. transitional phrases and constructions which help you link ideas and paragraphs in a logical, systematic way.

The course will be conducted basically in an online correspondence format with occasional video and/or face-to-face teaching sessions if and as required. The time allocated for these is Tues 17.00-18.30. The individual dates, if required, will be determined as the course progresses.

You are advised to take Part One first, although it is possible to take both parts in reverse order or concurrently (i.e. in the same semester). You may only do the latter on the authority of the course leader (Atkinson).

Registration (compulsory)

All students must register. First time particpants are required to present a B2 English Level Certificate along with their email registration. All students including those who have already taken Academic English Part Two and those who need to repeat Academic English Part One must register by contacting Howard Atkinson at: howard.atkinson@uni-weimar.de between 26th Oct and 6^th November. Emails should be given the subject heading: AE I Registration

continuous assessment 

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