Study Guide

Objective

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Content

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Location and time

Online on the Moodlerooms course (and Collaborate LTI).
The course is completed during one semester. Some deadlines are set along the semester, but faster completion is possible too. The students can work at their own pace for the most part.

Materials

Moodlerooms course online and Theseus.

Teaching methods

This course is done online, in Moodlerooms, by completing some learning assignments on Academic English: its register and style, the typical grammar structures, and features of formal written language in scientific reports and summaries (e.g. vocabulary and phrases), and writing as a process. The tasks also cover reporting about the status, the aims, and the topic of a thesis, familiarising oneself with the language and structure of Abstracts, distinquishing between different types of abstracts, and analysing media abstracts.
The student can proceed either according to the deadlines or faster at his/her own pace.
The student gets some feedback from the teacher too.

Student workload

The principles of scientific writing, vocabulary, style and structures 10h (independent work and possible online lessons and contact with the teacher) 10 hGrammar (structures): online material and independent study 7h Independent writing tasks and going through the feedback and answers 10h

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
Passing the learning assignments. The student understands the style and register of final year thesis abstracts and scientific texts. The student is able to form a clear structure and an informative title in the Abstract and is able to use the central grammar structures and terminology of scientific English. The student becomes familiar with other final year thesis abstracts in media studies. The student also comprehends the process of writing the abstract.
Fail:
The student has not done the course assignments, or the assignments are incomplete: The student has failed to understand the topics of the course or the task instructions.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment methods and criteria

Learning assignments completed and passed on the Moodlerooms course.
Pass/Fail.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Fail: The student has failed to do all the learning assignments according to the instructions and requirements. The student has failed to understand the topics of the course or the task instructions.