Toolkit for Writing (5cr)

Intro

Do you want to become a member of the academic community and promote your ideas, expressing yourself in a convincing manner? Do you want to enhance your academic writing skills to use in appropriate and relevant academic texts? In that case, this course is for you. You will learn the basics of Academic English including the keys for a great writing style based on a good command of the structure, vocabulary and referencing technique.

Learning objectives

After completing the course, the student

- can employ the different functions of sentence and paragraph types to express information
- acquires an increased vocabulary suited for academic English
- learns the standard and academically accepted structure of an essay/report/thesis to better express one’s intentions more clearly in writing
- learns how to use a contemporary referencing system

Contents

Students learn, from the elements of the sentence and the paragraph, an approach that is expandable to encompass the demands of writing a full-fledged thesis in academically appropriate English, as follows:

- Academic Writing Style
- Report Organization
- Logical Organization of Ideas
- Paragraph Structure
- Academic Vocabulary
- Referencing

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

1. Implementation method
VIRTUAL NONSTOP
Descriptions of implementation methods can be found at Haaga-Helia's website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/implementation-types

2. Information about demonstration and work & study:
You can complete the course unit by demonstrating or by Work&Study even if the course unit doesn't have DEMO or WORKSTUDY implementations. More information about recognition of learning at Haaga-Helia's website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/career-planning/recognition-learning

3. Information about the demonstration assignment:
a) A portfolio containing samples of your writing: e.g. an academic article; a professional blog; an executive summary written at your work place
b) A summary on your experiences of professional writing using the Haaga-Helia template for short assigments.

Learning materials

The course materials are available on Moodle

Lähtötaso ja sidonnaisuudet muihin opintojaksoihin

No pre-requisites

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass/Fail
The course is passed by completion of compulsory exercises on Moodle.