Academic Writing

Description: The discipline contributes to the further development of undergraduates' skills to express and substantiate their thoughts through a sufficiently convincing scientific text (articles, dissertations, reviews, monographs, annotations) when carrying out their own research projects and programs in their field of activity and to provide the results in written form in accordance with the legal norms of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the international academic community in Kazakh, Russian, and English.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• Foreign language (professional)

Course Workload:

Component: University component

Cycle: Base disciplines

Goal

• The purpose of the course is the formation of professional competence and the expansion of communicative competence related to analytical textual activity; the formation of PhD students' linguistic and pragmatic thinking skills, the ability to analyze expressive units of a language and competently select the right unit depending on the goals and conditions of communication.

Objective

• to introduce the features of academic genres (annotations, abstracts, analytical reviews, as well as reports on a scientific event (conference)); to determine the main goals of analytical text processing; to teach how to analyze texts on professional topics.

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• the ability to independently carry out research activities in the relevant professional field using modern research methods and information and communication technologies

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• the ability to independently conduct scientific research and obtain scientific results that meet the established requirements for the content of a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• The ability to critically evaluate scientific texts and research, highlighting the main arguments and counterarguments. The ability to analyze the quality and reliability of information sources, learn to critically evaluate scientific texts and research, highlighting the main arguments and counterarguments, as well as analyze the quality and reliability of information sources.

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• ability to write, apply, understand academic Pismo in the professional field

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• The ability to structure a scientific text in accordance with academic standards. Mastery of the technique of writing an introduction, a literature review, the main part and the conclusion of a scientific work.the ability to critically analyze and evaluate modern scientific achievements, generate new ideas in solving research and practical problems, including in interdisciplinary fields

Teaching methods

Lecture-seminar-credit system 2. Research methods 3. Information and communication technologies

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

• 40% of the examination result;
• 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Topics of lectures

• The main genres of academic writing (abstract, review, analytical review, scientific report)
• The concept of a scientific database
• Scientific databases: rules for making a search query, keyword search,
• Domestic and foreign databases (elibrary, jstor, muse, RGB, VGBIL catalogs, Library of Congress)
• The structure of the academic community: research centers, publishing houses, journals
• Bibliographic regulation description
• Abstract as a brief description of the content of a printed work or manuscript
• The main goals and objectives of annotation
• Abstract as a special genre in the field of scientific information
• The main goals and objectives of abstracting
• Features of the analytical review
• The main goals and objectives of the scientific review
• A message about a scientific event (conference, round table, discussion)
• Features of editorial editing in a scientific publication

Key reading

• ра: 1. Болсуновская Л.М. Аннотирование и реферирование научно-популярных и научных текстов на английском языке [Текст] : учебное пособие / Л. М. Болсуновская, В. Н. Демченко, И. В. Шендерова ; М-во образования и науки РФ, Гос. образовательное учреждение высш. проф. образования «Нац. исслед. Томский политехнический ун-т» - Томск Изд-во Томского политехнического ун-та, 2010. 2. Славина Г., Аннотирование и реферирование. Учебное пособие по английскому языку/ Г. Славина, З. Харьковский, Е. Антонова - Москва : Флинта Наука, 2009

Further reading

• 3. Шимановская Л.А. Аннотирование и реферирование научно-популярной литературы на английском языке : учебнометодическое пособие / Л. А. Шимановская ; Федеральное агентство по образованию, Гос. образовательное учреждение высш. проф. образования «Казанский гос. технологический ун-т» - Казань : КГТУ, 2010.