Welcome!

On this course, you will learn how to structure a scientific article effectively, and how to present your ideas and results in a way that is clear and reader-friendly. You will be working on your article draft as part of the course, and peer review, where you discuss each other's texts in small groups, is a very important part of the course.

In the General Information Module, find (among other things):

Course Information (Kurs-PM), including Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
Course Overview with a schedule and content for each Seminar

There are 8 Seminar Modules. In each Module, you will find a 'Prepare for Seminar 1,2,3 etc,' page. Each one will contain some of the following:

Required reading. You should read some of this before the Seminar, but some of it can be follow-up reading. All important concepts from the required reading will be covered in the Seminar.
A quick read. This provides summaries of some of the most important concepts from the required reading. This is useful if you don't have time to do all the required reading before the Seminar.
Extra reading. This will consolidate your understanding of the Seminar content.
Academic phrasebank. The main function of this resource is to provide useful phrases for writing a research paper, but it also provides brief introductory texts to some of the themes covered in the Seminars.
Tasks. These should be completed before the Seminar.
Quizzes. These are optional and can be completed at any time, before or after the Seminar. There is also a module with some extra grammar quizzes, mostly dealing with common errors. You may be directed to certain quizzes in feedback on your work.

In Assignments, you will find details of the tasks you are required to complete as part of the course.

Communication:

After the first Seminar, we use Announcements as our main mode of communication to the whole group or to the individual sections.

We may use Discussions to further explore issues that arise in the Seminars.

On this course, you will meet:

Susanna Lyne

(Wednesday teacher + course coordinator)

Jane Bottomley

(Thursday teacher + course coordinator)