Academic English Writing and Presentation Course - intermadiate

Garant předmětu:

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Darren Copeland

Supervisor:

Department of Humanities and Languages

Synopsis:

Optional course, a possible free sequel to course 04MGA1, offers Master´s degree students at intermediate level of English a chance to develop, improve, and strengthen their writing and presentation skills. Syllabus will respond to specific professional needs of participants, but will include also writing and preparing a presentation on own research topic, a search, instruction on writing Master thesis in English and presenting chosen facts. Course will thus prepare students for presentations at conferences. Course is a non-graded assessment course.

Requirements:

Student will have passed English for intermediate students course in the Bachelor programme.

Syllabus of lectures:

Topics are based on the textbook and are supplemented according to students´ needs. They cover: writing a search, short communications, short reports and essays, thus preparing students for their master thesis.

Learning presentation techniques and training presentation strategies on chosen topics.

Syllabus of tutorials:

The course is run as as series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus given above.

Study Objective:

To offer students on master degree programmes a chance to develop writing and presentation skills on chosen academic topics. The course will prepare student for writing, presenting and defending his/her Master´s Degree Thesis in English. Such programme is not part of the bachelor degree English course.

Knowledge:

Typical features of academic texts (participial structures, noun compounds, phrasal verbs in technical texts, sentence structure, cohesion), extended professional vocabulary both in writing and speaking.

Skills:

To write a short text, essay on a given topic related to the student´s branch, present a problem from the branch using correct presentation techniques a appropriate language structures.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] Martin Hewings, Cambridge Academic English, Cambridge.

[2] R.R.Jordan, Academic Writing Course, Longman 2008

Recommended references:

[1] J.Leki, Academic Writing, Cambridge University Press 2005

[2] L.Hamp-Lyons, B.Heasley, Study Writing, Cambridge University Press 2002

[3] M.McCarthy, F.O´Dell, Academic Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press 2008

[4] bilingual and monolingual dictionaries

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: