Academic English

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Recommended literature (with extracts referred to in the course):
de Chazal, Edward and Sam McCarter (2012/2013): Oxford English for Academic Purposes Upper-Intermediate and Advanced. Oxford: OUP.
Hewings, Martin, and Craig Thaine (2012): Cambridge Academic English. Cambridge: CUP.
Mautner, Gerlinde (2019): Wissenschaftliches Englisch. 3rd edition. Vienna: facultas/UTB.
McCarthy, Michael, and Felicity D’Dell (2016): Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: CUP. 2nd edition.
Skern, Tim (2011): Writing Scientific English. Vienna: facultas/UTB.
Warwick, Lindsay, and Louis Rogers (2018): Skillful 4: Reading and Writing. London: Macmillan Education.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Discussion and demonstration of academic conventions on quoting from academic sources, use of academic voice, appropriate formal style and register. Discussion of existing texts as specimens of the respective academic genres (e.g., research proposals, master theses). Writing workshop (hands-on approach).

Assessment methods and criteria

Students will be graded on the basis of a draft of their master theses (approximately six pages), on how well they have applied the conventions of Academic English (e.g. quoting, formal vocabulary and style, text cohesion).

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None