Graduate Academic Writing Enhancement Programme 研究生學術寫作提升課程

持續進修中心課程

Lifelong Learning Office (LLO) is offering a course to our internal graduate students.

The course aims at helping students to meet the specific demands of their academic work, tackling issues in their field of interest and expertise. The students will have to ensure that they can express themselves effectively to communicate their ideas in both written and oral expressions, also focuses on developing students’ abilities in writing and oral presentation of a wide spectrum of research genres, including:

Annotated Bibliography:

Students will be able to construct a list of relevant citations to books, articles, and documents that follows the appropriate style format for the discipline. Each citation will be followed by a brief descriptive, critical and evaluative paragraph.

Research writing skills for proposals

Students will develop effective argumentation techniques and organizational strategies in using appropriate language to craft different sections of their research proposals.

Research writing skills for presentations

Students will learn how audience and purpose influence the content, organization and language style of a presentation.

Aims of the course: Intended Learning Outcomes

1.Knowledge and Content Related	Students can: a) identify and address the needs and concerns of a variety of academic audiences in writing b) identify the overall structure and function of academic articles c) recognize the functions and conventions of different sections of a thesis/research proposal d) critically analyse and discuss issues and recent developments in your major area of study e) support ideas with appropriate evidence, and properly acknowledge sources
2. Academic Skills and Competencies	Students can: a) make use of appropriate organizational structures, tones and formats in writing for different audiences and purposes b) include citations and quotations seamlessly in research writing, and effectively synthesize different viewpoints to form a coherent argument c) use accurate, fluent and persuasive language (vocabulary, structures and hedging) to write research proposals based on quantitative data, in describing experimental designs, and in formulating research questions and hypotheses, and engage readers right from the start
3. Ethical Standards	Students can: demonstrate academic integrity in course assignments.
4. Vision and Orientation to the Future	Students can: recognize the need to communicate courteously and appropriately in professional contexts.

Course Outline for Academic Programme for Postgraduate Students

Class	Topics
1	– Using academic texts for speaking and writing – Brainstorming topics
2	– Group discussions about the topics and receiving feedback – Narrowing down topics and finding a focus
3	– Evaluating source texts: Reliable & Unreliable Sources, Bias & Neutral perspectives
4	– Taking notes effectively from academic articles
5	– Summarizing & Paraphrasing – Submit Annotated Bibliography (20%)
6	– Academic language & style I: Hedging, Writer’s logic & Argumentation, Academic Word List
7	– Academic language & style II: Structure, Improving paragraphs, Cohesion and Linking ideas
8	– Identifying an author’s stance, support and responding to them
9	– Synthesizing multiple sources – Expressing your opinions about a topic
10	– Addressing counter-arguments and rebuttals – Submit research proposal (40%)
11	– Slide Design and Content
12	– Transforming written language into spoken language, Presenting without a script
13	– Presenting creatively for different purposes
14	– Mock presentation & video review
15	– In-class presentation & feedback (40%)

課程詳情：

導師：	Ceci Kuan 導師及 Geoff Churchill 導師
日期：	2022年11月07日至 12月21日
時間：	週一、三及週二、四 13:00 – 15:00 （上課日子詳情請按此連結）
課時：	30小時（共15節）
地點：	聖若瑟大學青洲校舍
語言：	英語授課
模式：	面授教學
學費：	澳門幣2,000
對象：	聖若瑟大學在讀研究生