Description
Academic writing is an exciting new field that is researched and taught at all of the world’s universities today. It is a field that has grown immensely in terms of research effort and prestige during the past twenty-five years. If you are new to an academic writing course, you will see that this course covers not only the traditional territory of written English — vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, organization, style, clarity, brevity etc. In fact, the focus of the course is on broader content related matters such as when to include what information where, and how. LOTT is an online course on writing M.A. theses at the Leiden English department. It is organized into five tutorials: Introductions, Conclusions and Titles/Outline, Research and Language/Style. These tutorials are to be found on Blackboard (blackboard.leidenuniv.nl) under LOTT. In addition, the course offers a great number of remedial vocabulary, grammar, style and punctuation exercises. There are links to other online writing courses, to software tutorials (MS Word and SPSS), to dictionaries and thesauruses and to libraries and other services.
Teaching method
One two-hour seminar in week 1. LOTT is an online self-study course.
Course objectives
Academic writing is learnable, and conscious application of the tools offered by LOTT will result in a clear, credible, elegant, exciting and appealing theses.
Required reading
Available in Blackboard.
Test method
Course grades depend on performance on text analysis exercises (click on Week by week) and on peer review of the work of others.
Time table
The timetable will be available from June 1st on the Internet.
Information
English Department, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102c. Phone: 071 527 2144, or by mail: English@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Registration
Students can register through U-twist before 15 July. After 15 July students can only register through the Departmental Office.
Blackboard
This course is supported by Blackboard