XENX045 Working Towards a Structured Text (3 op)

Course description

The course focuses on writing as a process. The course introduces topics such as pre-writing strategies, planning the process, and structuring a text. Through individual and group work students will write an academic piece of text in a process-like manner using different strategies.

Main contents

• Features of an academic text
• Process writing
• Strategies for writing
• Individual and group work

On completion of the course, the students will be able to

• set goals and work towards them as part of the writing process
• understand the value of working in teams
• write a structured piece of text (academic)
• discuss, summarize, and formulate multilingual research information in their own words in written form

TARGET GROUP: BA students (primarily)

PROFICIENCY LEVEL: B2