FL1007 Academic Communications in English: Writing and Presentation

FL1007 Academic Communications in English: Writing and Presentation

Number of Credits

2

Teaching Hour

32

Offering School

School of Foreign Languages

Course Instructor

Li Zhang

Course Level

Undergraduate

Language of Instruction

English

First Day of Class

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Last Day of Class

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Course Component

Lecture

Mode of Teaching

Synchronous (Online + On-campus)

Course recordings available for students.

Meeting Time

Week 1-16:Thursdays, 16:00-17:40 PM

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Time Zone

Beijing TimeUTC+8

Restrictions

Students should have intermediate level of English and above. There is no limitation to the majors and years of undergraduate studies.

Students are able to write in English and want to improve academic writing and presentation ability.

Course Description

Academic communications in EnglishWriting and presentation is a course focusing on task-based academic writing and oral presentation. The course is designed for developing students’ skills of researching in their academic discipline, and skills of academic writing and presentation. Students are required to collaborate and finish series of tasks for a research project and present their work to the class. The course is designed to provide students with the methods to plan, research, organize, write, edit, and evaluate various forms of academic writing. It is also intended for improving their ability of presentation for seminars and conferences in the academic world.

The process of writing and editing academic research paper on the basis of literature review and research work will be presented. Strategies and skills for oral presentations will be introduced, with a number of examples to illustrate how to start, organize, conclude and deliver a speech most effectively. Cooperation in academics will be manifested and highlighted all through the course. The coursework will include discussions on ethics and writing styles and techniques, evaluation of information resources, a group research paper, and group oral presentations based on the research paper, etc.

Assessment Format

1. FinalResearch paper 40%

2. MidPresentation 20%

3. Process40%

   - Participation and performance in class 10%

   - SPOC learning 10% (50% videos and exercise + 1 discussion)

   - Tasks in the process 20%

Syllabus

English