COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TEACHING THESIS WRITING AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YDI 5028 TEACHING THESIS WRITING AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES II COMPULSORY 2 0 0 8

Offered By

English Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HATICE IREM ÇOMOĞLU

Offered to

English Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with APA style thesis writing.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To enable students to be equipped with the writing techniques on APA
2   To enable them to evaluate theses
3   To let them analyse some scholarly articles
4   To lead them to write scholarly articles

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is a scholarly article
2 How to make paraphrases
3 How to write the introduction and comclusion
4 How are references written
5 How are tables prepared
6 How to edit
7 How to write a report
8 Ara Sınav
9 How to write a review
10 How to present an article
11 How is a poster prepared
12 Ethical issues and plagiarism
13 English, Jargon
14 How to summarize
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Thesis and Dissertation Witing in a Second Language ; Paltridge&Starfield, 2007
Writing a Graduate Thesis or Dissertation, L. Blair, Sesnse Punlisher, 2016
How to Write Your First Thesis, P. Gruba&J.Zobel, Springer, 2017

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussions, group-work, question-answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

irem.kaslan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

monday 10.00-11.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Reading 13 5 65
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Project Final Presentation 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 211

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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