Course details

English for PhD Students

JA6D Acad. year 2009/2010 Winter semester

Current academic year

Writing course for postgraduate and intermediate students.Various writing skills are trained and developed during the course: taking notes, summary, reports and articles, description of a process or instrument.

Guarantor

Krhutová Milena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (UJAZ)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

-

Time span

  • 13 hrs lectures
  • 13 hrs exercises

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Ability to distinguish various writing styles,reconstruct the text on the base of taken notes, write a summary, a report, article and also make a good presentation.

Learning objectives

Acquiring different skills necessary for writing: reading comprehension and summary, controlled writing, free composition and presentation. Note: this is a two-semester course

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Knowledge to be able in active conversation.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Basic writing styles
  2. Informal writing style
  3. Formal writing style
  4. General formal writing style
  5. Specialized-style characteristic
  6. Characteristics of general-style article
  7. Characteristics of specialized-style article
  8. Specialized writing style
  9. Writing a report
  10. Writing an article
  11. Writing an essay
  12. Writing up your notes
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Main features of essay
  15. Means of connecting ideas
  16. Organizing a paragraph
  17. Using direct and indirect speech
  18. Using quotations and references
  19. Effective taking notes
  20. Organizing a passage
  21. Characteristics of summary
  22. Writing a summary
  23. Keeping logical order in the text construction
  24. Basic features of description
  25. Exploiting source materials
  26. Spring semester test written

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  1. Tense system in English
  2. How to use tenses properly
  3. Kinds of sentences
  4. Relative pronouns
  5. Using participles
  6. Analysis of sentences
  7. Uses of the comma
  8. The right word in the right place
  9. Contrasts
  10. Negative prefixes
  11. Conjunctions and relative pronouns
  12. Articles
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Expressing possibilities
  15. Causes and effects
  16. Compound words
  17. Direct and indirect speech
  18. Personal pronouns used impersonally
  19. The phrasal verb
  20. Conditional sentences
  21. Various uses of the passive voice
  22. Contrast within a sentence
  23. Derived words
  24. Simple and complex sentences
  25. General sentence synthesis
  26. Spring semester test written

Progress assessment

  • Active participation in the seminars
  • Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks
  • Success at the written semester test (min. 50%)

Controlled instruction

  • 75% attendance
  • Active participation in the seminars
  • Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks

Course inclusion in study plans

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