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

GEM065F, 6 credits

Valid from: Autumn 2013
Decided by: FN1/Anders Gustafsson, FN2/Eva Nordberg Karlsson, FN3/Per Tunestål
Date of establishment: 2013-05-28

General Information

Division: Doctoral Research Training
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English

Aim

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.

Goals

Knowledge and Understanding

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• 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.

Competences and Skills

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• 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.

Judgement and Approach

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

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

Course Contents

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

Course Literature

Reading material will be distributed by the course instructor.

Instruction Details

Types of instruction: Lectures, exercises. The course comprises a series of lectures, workshops and tutorials combined with group exercises and individual assignments.

Examination Details

Examination format: Written assignments. 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.
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:

Admission Details

Admission requirements: To be admitted to the course applicants have to be part of a PhD programme at LTH.
Selection criteria: 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.

Further Information

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

Course Occasion Information

Contact and Other Information

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