Description
Script to Print builds on the first-year From Scratch to Script course. De emphasis is on both the practical aspects of academic writing (such as techniques that help to write more easily and with increased confidence; the study of the linguistic characteristics of academic texts; writing academic texts) as well as studying issues in recent literature on writing in a second language (academic writing viewed from a number of theoretical perspectives).
Teaching method
Two hour seminar per week.
Course objectives
Writing and editing academic texts; knowledge of theories on academic writing such as contrastive rhetoric and genre analysis and the ability to apply them in text analyis.
Required reading
Syllabus on Blackboard
Christine Pearson Casanave, Controversies in second language writing: Dilemmas and decisions in research and instruction, The University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Ken Hyland, English for Academic Purposes, Routledge, 2006.
Michael Swan. Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press: most recent edition.
Test method
Written test (33%).
Writing assignment (33%).
Oral presentation (33%).
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.