Study Guide

Objective

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Content

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Location and time

Online on the Moodlerooms course and Theseus.
The course is completed during one semester. Deadlines have been set along the semester, but faster completion is possible too. The students can work at their own pace for the most part.

Materials

Moodlerooms course online and Theseus.

Teaching methods

This course helps students with writing about their thesis reports and abstracts in English. It is done online, in Moodlerooms, by completing learning assignments in a given order. The assignments cover Academic English: its register and style, typical grammar structures, features of formal written language in scientific reports and summaries (e.g. vocabulary and phrases), and writing as a process. The tasks also include reporting about the status, the aims, and the topic of a thesis, familiarising oneself with the language and structure of Abstracts, distinquishing between different types of abstracts, and analysing media abstracts.

The student can proceed either according to the deadlines or faster at his/her own pace. The course is aimed at students at the end of their studies, at the start or during the thesis process, but no thesis topic is required before starting the course.

Student workload

The principles of scientific writing, vocabulary, style and structures (independent work and possible online lessons and contact with the teacher) 10 h; Grammar (structures) material and independent study 7h ; Independent writing tasks and related feedback and answers 10h.
The course is done within one semester. The tasks include given deadlines but the student may also complete them in a faster pace. The student works primarily independently.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Passing the learning assignments. The student understands the style and register of final year thesis abstracts and scientific texts. The student is able to form a clear structure and an informative title in the Abstract and is able to use the central grammar structures and terminology of scientific English. The student becomes familiar with other final year thesis abstracts in media studies. The student also comprehends the process of writing the abstract.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment methods and criteria

Learning assignments completed and passed on the Moodlerooms course.

The student understands the principles of scientific texts in English and has the abilities to write scientific English, especially the abstract of the final year thesis.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

The student has failed to do all the learning assignments according to the instructions and requirements. The student has failed to understand the topics of the course or the task instructions.