Academic Writing for Publication in the Engineering and Science Disciplines
Akademiskt skrivande för publicering inom teknik- och naturvetenskaperna

GEM065F, 6 högskolepoäng

Gäller från och med: Autumn 2013
Beslutad av: FN1/Anders Gustafsson, FN2/Eva Nordberg Karlsson, FN3/Per Tunestål
Datum för fastställande: 2013-05-28

Allmänna uppgifter

Avdelning: Doctoral Research Training
Kurstyp: Ren forskarutbildningskurs
Undervisningsspråk: English

Syfte

The aim of the course is to offer participants an opportunity to improve their communicative strategies and academic writing skills to meet disciplinary demands. An explicit aim is to increase the participants’ awareness of the prevailing publication conventions in their specific field of study, with a primary focus on research articles.

Mål

Kunskap och förståelse

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• be aware of existing rhetorical patterns in research writing, both in general and in their specific disciplines
• be aware of common ways of structuring information in research writing on sentence, paragraph and text level.

Färdighet och förmåga

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• be able to reflect on the research writing process in terms of planning, drafting, editing and revising
• be able to analyse, discuss and develop writing in their own disciplines with the support of frameworks, models and collegial discussions
• be able to identify potential weaknesses related to their written English language proficiency
• be able to provide constructive feedback on the writing of others, through written and oral peer response.

Värderingsförmåga och förhållningssätt

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• demonstrate willingness to engage in collegial discussions on academic writing
• demonstrate openness towards alternative traditions of academic writing.

Kursinnehåll

General academic writing, discipline-specific academic writing, discourse analysis, process-oriented writing, rhetorical structures, English written proficiency, communicative strategies, peer response, publication conventions.

Kurslitteratur

Reading material will be distributed by the course instructor.

Kursens undervisningsformer

Undervisningsformer: Föreläsningar, övningar. The course comprises a series of lectures, workshops and tutorials combined with group exercises and individual assignments.

Kursens examination

Examinationsform: Inlämningsuppgifter. For a Pass on the course, the participant must have attended at least 80 % of the scheduled activities and completed all assignments in the course.
Betygsskala: Underkänd, godkänd
Examinator:

Antagningsuppgifter

Förkunskapskrav: To be admitted to the course applicants have to be part of a PhD programme at LTH.
Urvalskriterier: Priority is given to: 1) PhD students who have previously applied to the course and were eligible at the time, 2) PhD students with the earliest admittance dates to the PhD studies.

Övrig information

It is expected that applicants are sufficiently far along in their research process that they can start drafting sections of a research paper.

Kurstillfällesinformation

Kontaktinformation och övrigt

Kursansvarig: Lene Nordrum <lene.nordrum@englund.lu.se>
Hemsida: https://www.lth.se/english/cee/doctoral-education-support/faculty-wide-phd-courses/