🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

🇬🇧 [The course is taught and examined in English] 🇬🇧

The purpose of the course is to develop writing and research skills appropriate to an academic environment. The emphasis will be on learning, through academic texts relevant to the direction, the elements that make up the conventions of reading, writing, research, and presenting academic papers and bibliography. At the end of the semester students will be able to present, write and research at university level in the English language. Students will have learned to:

• Critically analyze the academic texts they read

• Apply academic techniques for writing a research paper

• Combine research material to create an original argument

• Present work in an effective way

• Organize information for writing papers and bibliography

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Introduction and Note-Taking Techniques
2. Academic Language
3. Reservation
4. Paraphrasing
5. Abstract
6. Reading Skills
7. Oral Presentations
8. Introduction/Conclusion
9. Argument
10. Research Techniques 1
11. Research Techniques 2
12. References/Bibliography
13. Presentation of Papers

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Note-taking, exercises

2. Academic language, exercises

3. Writing with reservation, exercises

4. Paraphrasing writing, exercises

5. Writing with summary, exercises

6. Reading techniques, exercises

7. Oral presentation skills, exercises

8. Creation of introduction and conclusion paragraphs, exercises

9. Effective argument building techniques, exercises

10. Research Techniques 1, exercises

11. Research Techniques, 2 exercises

12. Bibliography creation, exercises

13. Evaluation - Presentation of Papers

Language of assessment: English 🇬🇧

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Continuous Evaluation (25%)

• Oral Work (25%)

• Research Paper (50%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• English for Academic Study, Garnet Publishing (59395820)
• Digital Media in Foreign Language Education, Bessie Mitsikopoulou (102124205)

Extra Bibliography

• Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students, S. Bailey (2014)
• Academic Writing Course, R.R Jordan (1999)
• Writing Essays in English Language and Linguistics, N. Murray (2012)
• Writing Academic English, A. Oshima and A. Hogue (2005
• Academic Writing for Graduate Students, J. Swales and C. Feak (2012)