Academic English CIS-L&S Writing

URL study guide

https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/L_EABAALG104

Course Objective

• You have knowledge of the structure and register of academic texts in your discipline.
• You have insight into the most important stylistic and rhetorical aspects of formal written texts in English.
• You have insight into the strengths and weaknesses in your own English writing skills, and know how you can go about expanding the strengths and reducing the weaknesses.
• You can write a well-structured English text in a formal style about a subject related to your own degree. The text is free of serious lexical and grammatical mistakes that have a negative effect on the readability of your text.

Course Content

A lecture series focusing on the characteristics of written academic English, plus a series of seminars which provide practice on specific language elements and also guide students in writing academic texts.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and seminars each week

Method of Assessment

A series of writing assignments on a topic related to your field.

Literature

Materials will be placed on Canvas.

Target Audience

First-year students of CIS and L&S.

Custom Course Registration

There is a slightly different enrollment procedure for this module. The standard procedure of the Faculty of Humanities has students sign up for (i) the module, (ii) the form of tuition (lecture and/or preferred seminar group), and (iii) the exam. However, for this module the instructor will assign the students to the seminar groups. Therefore, students should sign up for (i) the module and (ii) lecture, but not for the seminar groups.

Additional Information

This is an obligatory course in the first year programme of CIS and L&S. The course is not open to students following other degrees. Attendance is compulsory.