Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University
Level

C 2013

Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga, Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ and Renata POVOLNÁ

Basic information

Original name

Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level

Authors

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga (100 Bulgaria, belonging to the institution), Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Renata POVOLNÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1st ed. Göttingen, English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches, p. 123-147, 25 pp. REAL Studies 7, 2013

Publisher

Cuvillier Verlag

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/13:00070910

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

ISBN

978-3-95404-582-2

Keywords (in Czech)

akademická angličtina; dovednosti akademického psaní; universitní kurzy akademického psaní

Keywords in English

English for academic purposes; academic writing skills; university academic writing courses

Abstract

V originále

The chapter outlines the results of research focused on academic writing skills and the content and design of academic writing courses at university level. It is based on a survey carried out in bachelor and master programmes at the English department of Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The survey explored the students' previous experience of academic writing and previous tuition as well as their needs and and development of writing skills at university level. The results show that Czech university students mostly have previous experience in general writing but not in academic writing, which they mostly become acquianted with at university only. Therefore, they need systematic tuition with focus on the specificities of academic writing such as style, argument presentation and development, quotation styles, plagiarism, etc. Such systematic tuition should be provided both in specialized academic writing courses as well as incorporated in various other university courses. The theoretical tuition must be closely connected with practical tasks which will help students in applying the theory to practice, i.e. their own real writing.

Citovat

DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga, Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ and Renata POVOLNÁ. Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level. In Haase, C. and Schmied, J. (eds). English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches. 1st ed. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 2013, p. 123-147. REAL Studies 7. ISBN 978-3-95404-582-2.

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DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA, Olga, Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ and Renata POVOLNÁ. Designing Courses on Academic Writing Skills at University Level. In Haase, C. and Schmied, J. (eds). \textit{English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches}. 1st ed. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 2013, p.~123-147. REAL Studies 7. ISBN~978-3-95404-582-2.

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