The aim of this course is to help you sharpen your writing skills in English for academic purposes. The focus is on:
- Optimizing sentence structure and word order
- Avoiding wordiness
- English grammar and vocabulary
By actively participating in the course, you will gain:
- Tips on how to make your writing clear and concise
- Strategies for reflecting on your own writing style
- Practice with editing your own and others' texts
- Increased confidence and competence in writing scientific texts in English
The course comprises interactive lectures, group work, and individual writing practice. Topics include sentence types, subject-verb agreement, use of active and passive voice, British versus American English, and academic vocabulary and style.
As preparation for the course, you will need to:
- Find a text of your own that you can work on during the course
- Do an online assignment on ‘Nouns and Verbs’ to revise basic grammar (It will take about 1 hour)
- Watch a 5-minute video about Sentence types.
You gain course credits by completing the pre-course assignments and participating actively in all course days.
2 ECTS