| 科目名 |
Research Writing |
| 担当教員 |
Lawrence Hunter |
| 対象学年 |
1年,2年,3年 |
クラス |
大学院：共通001 |
| 講義室 |
Ａ１１１ |
開講学期 |
２学期 |
| 曜日・時限 |
木２ |
単位区分 |
選択 |
| 授業形態 |
一般講義 |
単位数 |
2 |
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| 授業の詳細1 |
授業の目的 Course Objectives:
1. Students will learn the mechanics of summarizing technical documents, and will practice the skill of summarizing.
2. Students will learn the mechanics of critiques of technical documents, and will practice the skill of critique writing.
3. Each student will create a Technical English Writing Dossier, searching out good examples of English research papers in his/her field of study, and will learn to analyze the structure and style of those papers.
4. Students will learn the structure and composition of a formal research paper.
授業の進め方 Course design:
For each type of technical English document (example: critique of a research report), this course has a cycle of activities: learn the structure of the document type; learn how to design such a document; write text using the design.
授業計画 Course outline:
Lesson 1-2 Cohesion
Lesson 3-4 Communication moves
Lesson 5-6 Argument mapping
Lesson 7-8 Claims and hedging
Lesson 9-10 Writing data commentaries
Lesson 11 Information structures and signals
Lesson 12-14 Avoiding vagueness and ambiguity
Lesson 15 Avoiding plagiarism: citation and paraphrasing
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1-3. Writing summaries: structure and technique.
4-6. Writing critiques: unreal conditionals; evaluative language; inversions, special verb agreements; scare quotes.
7-9. Constructing a research paper: methods section; imperatives, commentary in results section.
10-12. Opening and claiming sections of a paper: introduction; claiming centrality; citation and tense; negative openings.
13-15. Discussion and levels of generalization in a research paper.
テキストTextbook: Hunter, L. (2008) How Academic Writing Works. KUT Press.
Reference materials:
1. Instructor's website at
http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/grads/
2. English-English or bilingual dictionaries with extensive sentence examples.
3. Swales, J.M. & Feak, C.B. (2004) Academic writing for graduate students. 2nd edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08856-4.
成績評価 Assessment:
80% for research writing skill assignments
10% for dossier creation
10% for 2 presentations
履修前の受講が望ましい科目
Requirements for enrolment in this course:
This is a course for doctoral students.
Other students must be tested and must obtain permission of the instructor to register.
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