Lecturer: Ju-Chuan Huang (黃如瑄)
Email: pass860@email.ntou.edu.tw
Phone: 02-24622192 #2031
Course ID: M9D025P3
Credits: 3
Objective: This course aims at improving your English academic writing skills and guiding you to write a well-organized research paper. In this course, you will learn the basic structure of a research article—Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion—by analyzing a set of articles of your choice and by writing these sections on your own. By the end of this course, you are expected to write a short research paper in about 10 pages and give a 20-minute presentation on your study.
Course Prerequisites: N/A available to PhD students in all disciplines. lecture in English
Outline: teacher-made powerpoint slides; research article sections
Teaching Method: lecture, group discussion, group activities
Reference: Swales, J., & Feak, C. B. (2004). Academic writing for graduate students. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
Course Schedule (subject to change):
Introduction to academic writing, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Abstracts
Evaluation:
Attendance and participation 10%
Assignments 60%
Final paper 10%
Oral presentation 20%
THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE