KDK1500 Experiments and contradictions Course description

• A completed Master¿s Degree.
• Employment at OsloMet.

Admission of PhD candidates and academic staff employed at other higher educational institutions and/or research institutions in Norway can be considered subject to the available places on the course.

Admission of internal and external candidates is based on individual application approved by the applicant¿s Head of Studies or Head of Division.

Participants should be reasonably fluent in written and oral English and familiar with academic conventions and requirements.

Ranking

• PhD candidates and academic staff at OsloMet.
• PhD candidates and academic staff employed at other higher education and/or research institutions in Norway.

After completion of the course, the student will have acquired the following learning outcomes, defined as knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The candidate has in-depth knowledge of:

• the writing conventions and rhetorical patterns needed for international publication in their field
• revision, editing and development strategies needed for international publication
• principles of applied textual analysis for writing development

Skills

The candidate can:

• formulate academic texts in English intended for international publication
• transform awareness of textual features into specific writing strategies
• analyse and describe trends and features of their field¿s academic English

General competence

The candidate can:

• can identify and establish connections between writing practices, writing conventions and research traditions in their fields
• discuss and give feedback on a range of academic texts and issues
• can reflect on and document their current practices and how these can be developed

Participants will develop a sophisticated awareness of the conventions of academic writing, and how they vary between different disciplines. Participants throughout the course will apply this awareness to their own projects, refining their writing and increasing their likelihood of publication. Moreover, the analytical tools each participant develops during the course will keep on working after the course: each participant will continue to develop their awareness of academic writing and improve their own writing long after the course has finished.

Among the topics covered by the course are:

• Variations in academic style
• Audience, purpose and style
• The writing process
• Disciplinary identity
• Academic language
• Vocabulary, grammar, sentence, paragraph and text
• Coherence and cohesion
• Directness and formality
• Avoiding common errors: e.g. digression, lack of thesis statement, misunderstanding one¿s audience
• Analysing, discussing and responding to academic texts
• Article structures, including IMRAD

The course is held each semester.

• The course language is English throughout.
• The course will include task-based teaching, focusing on problems typical for Norwegian writers of academic English.
• In each session the group will work on two draft documents submitted by participants. The group works together on improvements.
• The rest of the session will focus on analytical and short writing and thinking tasks, aimed at rooting writing conventions in participants¿ disciplinary knowledge

Participants are expected to work on their papers between sessions, assimilating into their own work topics raised during class.

Participants will be responsible for distributing their manuscripts to the group at least a week before the session dealing with their work.

Eksamen er en individuell mappe bestående av to deler som vurderes samlet:

1. Praktisk arbeid: Studenten skal utvikle to praktiske arbeider knyttet opp til emnets faglige innhold.
2. Skriftlig oppgave: Den skriftlige refleksjonen skal omhandle det praktisk arbeidet, og skal være på om lag 1500 ord

Eksamensresultatet kan påklages.

Se undervisningsplanene for nærmere informasjon om eksamen.

Gyldig fravær - ikke bestått

Studenter som får vurderingen Ikke bestått, eller som på grunn av gyldig fravær ikke avlegger eksamen, kan melde seg opp til ny/utsatt eksamen.

Ved ny/utsatt eksamen vil enten en ny eksamensoppgave gis ut, eller den samme eksamensoppgaven gis ut på nytt til forbedring.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

Bestått - Ikke bestått

Eksamen sensureres av én intern sensor. Emnet kan bli trukket ut til ekstern sensur.

Helle Karine Stølevik

Emnet overlapper 10 studiepoeng mot KDK1200.