COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ACADEMIC WRITING AND PRESENTATION TECHNICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 6093 ACADEMIC WRITING AND PRESENTATION TECHNICS ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Statistics (English)

Course Objective

The successful completion of research and laboratory studies is only part of the responsibility of postgraduate studies, Academic writing and presentation need to be assist in order to publish with a minimum of delay and difficulty. This course is for upper intermediate, advanced and high advanced level of students of English. Its aim is to enable students of English to write academic essays and help to translate scientific papers.Although basically, a medium for communication of ideas, language is someting that can be enjoyed and appreciated.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To encourage students to reflect on and develop practically their own
2   To increase the provision of the advanced academic vocabulary
3   To develop the basic techniques of the writing scientific paper translation skills
4   To encourage students make conversation on the subjects given every

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1.1. Brief outline of the course 1.2. Introduction of the textbook and course syllabus 1.3. Multiple intelligence questionnare 1.4. Writing an essay about their personal statement and cv
2 2.1. What is Scientific Writing 2.2. Historical Perspectives 2.3. Approaching a Writing Project 2.4. What is a Scientific Paper 2.5. Ethics in Scientific Publishing
3 3.1. Advanced academic vocabulary 3.2. How to prepare the title 3.3. How to list the authors and addresses 3.4. How to prepare the abstract
4 4.1. Advanced academic vocabulary 4.2. How to write the introduction 4.3. How to Write the Materials and Methods Section
5 5.1. Advanced academic vocabulary 5.2. How to Write the Results 5.3. How to Write the Discussion
6 6.1. Advanced academic vocabulary 6.2. How to State the Acknowledgements 6.3. How to Cite the References
7 7.1. Prepositions 7.2. How to Design Effective Tables 7.3. How to Prepare Effective Graphs 7.4. How to Prepare Effective Photographs
8 8.1. Prepositions 8.2. How to Keyboard the Manuscript 8.3. Where and How to Submit the Manuscript
9 9.1.Conjuctions 9.2. The Review Process (How to Deal with Editors) 9.3. The Publishing Process (How to Deal with Proofs)
10 10.1. Conjuctions 10.2. Electronic Publishing Formats: CD-ROM and Distributed Printing 10.3. The Internet and the World Wide Web
11 11.1. Inversions 11.2. The Electronic Journal 11.3. E-mail and Newsgroups
12 12.1. Inversions 12.2. How to Order and Use Reprints 12.3. How to Write a Review Paper
13 13.1. How to Write a Conference Report
14 14.1. How to Write a Book Review

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXTBOOK: Day, R. A. and Gastel B. (2006). How to write and publish a scientific paper (Sixth edt.). Westport, connecticut, London: Greenwood press.
- Blackador, R.G., Dumych, H.and Griffin, P.J. (1975) Guide to Authors. Geological survey of Canada.
REFERENCES
- Asimov, I., (1974) Words of Science, Harrop, London.
- Booth, V., (2005) Communicating in Science: Writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings (8th print.). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
- Briscoe, M. H., Preparing Scientific Illustrations: A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations, and Publications, New York: Springer- Verlag.
- Demirezen, M., (1993) From Sentence To Paragraph Structure.Ankara: Adım Publications.Demirezen, M. (1994) Essential Composition and Short Essay Writing. Ankara: Adım Publications.
- Dicle, A., (2003) Manual For Writing Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations, (Volume:11). Istanbul: Yeditepe University Pub.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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)

cahit.helvaci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Reading 10 2 20
Final Assignment 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1
LO.2
LO.3
LO.4

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