Handouts of Academic Writing
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2024
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Letter and Foreign Languages
Abstract
These courses are designed for first year master students of English who are specialised in “Literature and Civilisation”. The primary aim of this module, Academic Writing, is to prepare learners for writing their dissertations through providing them with a practical guide supported with useful examples, exercises, and some suggested answers. This step-by-step guide starts by a simple definition of academic writing and its importance. It contains also a systematic review of basic principles and conventions about academic writing style and main pitfalls that should be avoided by learners in their writings. The guide, then, proceeds, very briefly, to an overall reminder of key concepts in research methodology which are interrelated to academic writing. These concepts are explained in a simplified way, with some carefully-selected models to be analysed in relation with the learners’ specialty. The courses attempt to gradually train the students on some skills as critical thinking, analysing, logical planning, summarizing and paraphrasing, as well as acquainting them with principles of clarity, precision, objectivity, and academic honesty. The guide ends by covering the MLA as a referencing style in formal writing to meet the learners’ needs, in addition to suggesting some further readings such as source books and useful videos.
Introduction
Chapter 1: