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GSH Soft Skills | Überfachliche Kompetenzen

Academic English Writing

Mittwoch, 01.03.2017 - Mittwoch, 17.05.2017

Dr. Réka Mihálka, Academic English Services, Universität Bern

Diese von der Graduate School of the Humanities am Walter Benjamin Kolleg organisierten Kurse zur Aneignung überfachlicher akademischer und berufsvorbereitender Kompetenzen stehen prioritär allen Doktorierenden der GSH offen. Freie Plätze können je nach Anmeldeeingang an weitere Doktorierende, MA-Studierende, Postdocs und externe Interessierte vergeben werden.

Veranstaltende: Graduate School of the Humanities | Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Redner, Rednerin: Dr. Réka Mihálka, Academic English Services, Universität Bern
Datum: 01.03.2017 - 17.05.2017
Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 17:15 Uhr
Ort: Seminarraum 117
Hauptgebäude
Hochschulstrasse 4
3012 Bern
Merkmale: Öffentlich
kostenlos

Datum: siehe Tabelle
ECTS: 2

This course aims to help students identify in what respects their writing needs improvement and to give them the opportunity to practice these aspects. To achieve these goals, we will identify and study a range of stylistic features, discuss matters of grammar and vocabulary, and practice writing diverse text types. Course participants will receive regular and individual feedback on their writing.

Dr. Réka Mihálka, Academic English Services, Universität Bern

Réka Mihálka is a lecturer in Academic English at the Academic English Services at the University of Bern. She received her summa cum laude PhD in English Literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 2011. Beforehand, she held fellowships at Kyoto University, Japan; Birkbeck, University of London, UK; the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and New York University, the USA. She has been living in Switzerland for more than five years.

Provisional course outline

     Date    Focus    Further Topics    Homework
 1 March 1
Practical academic genres:
the CV and the cover letter
Introduction
Sentence structure in English
Formal writing
A cover letter or a CV
 2 March 8
Project proposals
The writing process
Planning and managing the writing process
The sequence of writing
The writing context
Picking the right journal
A significance statement
Finding model texts
Maintaining a research
diary for two weeks
 3 March 22
Paragraph structure Topic progression
Cohesion
Linking devices
A structured paragraph
 4  April 5
 Definitions Article usage
Relative clauses
False friends
An extended definition
 5 April 19
Literature review Integrating sources
Citation systems
Reporting verbs
A literature review or a paragraph with integrated sources
 6 May 3
Introductions
Conclusions
Emphasis
Hedging
An introduction or a conclusion
 7 May 17
Titles
Abstracts
Self-editing your text
Punctuation
An abstract