English and Academic Writing (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The students enhance their reading, writing, spoken production, spoken interaction, and listening proficiency in English for efficient work as students and for their future professional careers. The specific objectives are as follows:
The students learn to explore and choose appropriate texts for study purposes. They acquire proficiency in reading academically relevant texts and articles for comprehension dealing with their study-field-specific topics in order to extend their academic knowledge. They learn to write documents, such as academic essays, study reports, summaries, and abstracts. They develop confidence and proficiency in their academic writing skills, including the use of rhetorical modes, i.e. communication strategies. They learn to discuss various articles and texts, and report them in writing and in speaking in group discussions in class. They gain proficiency in giving oral presentations, participating in meetings to discuss requests and quotations they write. They learn to write agendas, minutes and memos for meetings. They learn to write CVs and job applications and communicate in job interviews.

Sisältö

- reading BIT-related articles and texts for comprehension, including articles from IT magazines and research articles from various databases, including articles of students' own choice
- writing academic essays, summaries, and reports discussing and reporting orally and in writing various articles and texts
- discussing issues, such as sentence and paragraph structures, and choices of words, defining concepts and expressions for appropriate text structures and language forms in various texts
- discussing ethics of source retrieval and use
- practicing intext citation, i.e. indicating sources appropriately in academic texts and in the list of references in academic texts
- using of appropriate sources for information retrieval for their studies and various assignments
- conducting peer reviews to give peer feedback during the writing processes to complete the written tasks and assignments
- enhancing oral presentation skills by giving them opportunities to practice giving presentations and participating in meetings
- writing inquiries - requests for quotation and quotations
- writing a Europass CV and a cover letter

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

Objectives and contents of written and oral texts are contradictory. There are major flaws in the use of concepts and vocabulary. Few rhetorical modes are relied on. Communication is highly deficient in grammar, and in sentence and paragraph structures. These problems impede intelligibility. Communication is consistently lacking in appropriate style. Texts are invariably deficient in giving the source information and using the layout practices. The feedback for corrections is not taken. There is no-copy pasting.