Teaching Methodologies
Learning Results
The learner who completes this course unit successfully will have acquired the following competencies:
2.1.Recognise the specificities of academic writing in the English language.
2.2. Recognise and use the adquate formal vocabulary .
2.3.Identify and use academic grammar in order to have the proficiency and flow necessary for formal writing.
2.4. Elaborate summaries as practice work in order to gain trainning in the specific features of abstract writing.
2.5. Write a scientific article according to the specific structural and linguistic rules in order to be published in an international journal.
2.6. Write a training placement report according to the specific linguistic and structural form used at ESAC.
Program
3.1. Practical drills to transform informal vocabulary into formal.
3.2. The structure of the scientific text: mid-adverbs, verbs of action; ing clauses, connectives and linking prhases, indicative and informative verbs, etc.
3.3. The importance of the topic sentence/statement in summaries, abstracts and introductions.
3.4. Relative clauses and the use of that vs which.
3.5. Common use of Latin phrases in the academic text.
3.6. How to build a threefold introduction with: contextualization, presentation of objectives, and brief summary /guide of the work to follow.
3.7.The objective and of indirect citations and their relation with the references.
3.8. How to explain the methodology developed in a given piece of work.
3.9. How to present results and their discussion.
3.10.The difference among conclusion, final remarks and reflection.
3.11. The difference between the use of appendix and annex.
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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SBIDM – Referências Bibliográficas: Manual de Normas e Estilos. Aveiro: Bibliotecas da Universidadede Aveiro, 2010. ISBN 978-972-757-916-7.
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