Master's Degree in European and Extra-European Languages and Culture
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 2° Year
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2
Teaching Staff
MASSIMO STURIALELearning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin to produce their own original research paper. Both the technical abilities of academic writing (esercitazioni linguistici) together with the theoretcial and methodological approaches required will be offered. At the end of the course the final exam will consist in the writing of a research paper which will subsequently be evaluated and discussed during the final oral exam.
Course Structure
The course is divided into two main parts: the first deals with writing a 'critique', that is, an evaluation of a piece of academic writing. The skills acquired will then aid in the student's own research paper writing as well as providing the essential tools for analysing an academic text.
Detailed Course Content
| Writing a proposal: what to document; the writing process | ||
| How to write a literature review. Purpose of the review: linguistic tools | ||
| Selecting, justifying, and writing the methodology section | ||
| Language used in hedging | ||
| Writing a conclusion | ||
| Module 2 The language of the news, Critical Discourse Analysis |
Textbook Information
Foundation course:
- Simon Haines, Proficiency Masterclass, Oxford, Oxford University Press;
- J. Swales, & M. Feak,, Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3a edizione:
- Essential Tasks and Skills, University of Michigan Press/ELT, 2012 (3a edizione).
Monographic course: materiale sara' messo a disposizione durante il corso delle lezioni e poi reso disponibile on-line piattaforma STUDIUM
D Machin, and A. Mayr How to do Critical Discourse Analysis, Sage, London 2012.
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