Content

Target group and objectives:

PhD students who write articles in English. The course teaches participants how to write engaging and precise academic papers, improving confidence and independence in writing.

Content:

The course concentrates on improving the participants' academic writing by looking at:

  • paper build-up and structure
  • typical phrases
  • modern academic English writing
  • common language areas improving readability (e.g. grammatical pitfalls, punctuation)
  • resource materials
  • participants’ own academic texts

​Method:

In this interactive course, the theory will be taught and practised using relevant text extracts as examples. Furthermore, participants will be given writing assignments on which the lecturer will give them individual feedback. This gives participants the opportunity to focus on any current or future projects.

This course involves:

  • interacting during sessions
  • self-study (outside the sessions)
  • writing own academic texts and improving them

Materials:

The coursebook was developed by Linguapolis using their experience with similar courses, error analyses of student research papers and course feedback by students who followed the course in the past. As a result, the course meets the needs of the target group perfectly.

Practical information

Dates and location:

Course HC02
14 & 28 Oct.,  18 Nov., 9 Dec. 2024
9h30 - 12h30
Campus Middelheim
 - Building A - Room A.301
Course HC03
22 & 29 October, 19 Nov., 3 Dec. 2024
9h30 - 12h30
online
Course HC04
9 & 16 Dec. 2024,  13 & 27 Jan. 2025
13h30 - 16h30
Stadscampus,
 Building R - Room R Annexe 001 
Course HC06
3 & 17 Feb., 3 & 24 March 2025
9h30 - 12h30
Stadscampus - Building M - Room M.105
Course HC07
13 & 27 Feb., 13 & 27 March 2025
9h30 - 12h30
online
Course HC08
28 April, 5 & 19 May, 2 June 2025
9h30 - 12h30
Stadscampus - Building M - Room M.106
Course HC09
30 April, 14 May, 4 & 18 June 2025
9h30 - 12h30
Campus Middelheim - Building A - Room A.301
Course HC10
20 & 27 May, 10 & 24 June 2025
9h30 - 12h30
Campus Middelheim - Building A - Room A.301

Teacher:

Linguapolis (Susan George or Daniel Sossi)

Language of the course:

English

Docop-points:

This course counts for 1,2 docop-points.

Registration:

Via Sisa Self Service. Log in with your student account. Registration is possible as from 8 January 2025 and after you've been (re-)enrolled as a PhD student for 2024-2025.