Study Guide

Objective

• The student knows features of academic text.
• The student knows how to maintain the language and style of their own expert text, taking the recipient into account.
• The student recognizes genres of text related to the thesis and knows how to produce texts according to them.
• The student can make arguments using reliable source literature.
• The student knows how to indicate sources in accordance with the citation policy of Lapland UAS and the ethical research principles.

Content

• An expert's written communication.
• Business style.
• Maintaining correct language and text.
• Argumentation and the use of sources.
• Thesis text types: summary, introduction, results chapter, media briefing.

Location and time

Virtual learning in Zoom.
Zoom lectures in the autumn of 2024. The recordings of the lectures will be on the Moodle platform for the course. No mandatory participation to the live lectures. Some of the lectures may be presented as prerecorded recordings into the Moodle platform of the course.

1. Info 3.9. 17:30 - 19:30.
2. 10.9. 17:30 - 20:00.
3. 17.9. 17:30 - 20:00.
4. 24.9. 17:30 - 20:00.
5. 22.10. 17:30 - 20:00.
6. 5.11. 17:30 - 20:00.

Materials

As an E-book: Johnson, Andrew P. author. 2016. Academic Writing: Process and Product. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

As an E-book: Sword, H. 2012. Stylish academic writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Harvard University Press.

Teaching methods

Independent study at your own pace on the Moodle online platform, section by section.

Completion alternatives

About 130 h of independent work:
- writing assignment min. 30 h
- proficiency tests 1-9, approx. 10 h each

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The course is assessed as passed/failed.
The evaluation takes place when the student returns the last assignment to Moodle. The instructor gives assessment and feedback on the final task and checks that all tasks have been completed.

Assessment methods and criteria

The course is assessed as passed/failed.
The evaluation of the entire course takes place at the point when the student returns the last, i.e. writing assignment, to Moodle. The instructor gives feedback on the writing task and checks that all other tasks have been completed with approval.

Sections 1-9 are completed by passing the proficiency test for each section: at least 80% of the answers must be correct.

Section 10, i.e. the writing assignment, is assessed as approved/to be completed.

In the supplemental writing assignment

- references are not marked or the reference area is unclear

- essential information is missing from the source entries

- the content of the text is not understandable

- there are disturbingly many stylistic errors or inaccuracies in the text.

The evaluation of the writing assignment must be "supplemented" also in the event that the returned text does not otherwise correspond to the assignment.