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The course merges academic writing with European current affairs, focusing on East-Central Europe.
Current affairs materials and topics will be used to teach academic English. These will include written and broadcast news and news analyses, academic journal articles and book chapters, lectures, videos and other current affairs sources. The focus will be on academic English use, grammar, vocabulary, style and structure. Last update: Lochmanová Sára, Mgr. (31.01.2024)
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- Enhance students' knowledge of East-Central and European current affairs and issues through reading, writing, listening and discussion. - Develop students' academic writing and reading skills, including academic style, grammar, structure, signpost and generic language, data description, reading strategies, quoting and referencing, use of databases and academic presentations. This will enable them to research and express their ideas and arguments effectively and accurately. - Build students' analytical and critical thinking skills and ability to clearly argue for or against a position, supporting claims with relevant evidence. - Equip students with skills in proofreading for academic style and grammar and editing for structure and content. Last update: Cotte Pamela Danielle, M.A. (23.01.2025)
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Assessment will be based on the following: I Attendance and class participation. -Attendance is mandatory. -If a student is absent, it is his or her responsibility to check the homework to be prepared for the next lesson, including submitting any written assignments due. II Successful completion of 3 writing assignments -The assignments will be short with an emphasis on quality, not quantity. Details of the written content, submission and due dates of written assignments will be given. We will work with the writing assignments as part of our lessons. -Students will be encouraged to focus on their area of academic interest in their writing. -Possible writing assignments: a summary of an academic article, an abstract, review of a book/article/source, a position paper, an argumentative essay, a policy paper, introduction to a seminar paper, a thesis introduction. III Midterm test - One hour test on academic style and grammar. Test date to be emailed. - Content: academic style, use of articles, qualifying and hedging, passive voice, nominalisation, conjunctions and sentence connectors and subject-verb agreement. If a student does not pass the test he or she can retake it. - The test will consist of fill ins, grammar exercises (e.g. Change the sentence to passive voice.), and editing exercises (e.g. Find and correct the mistake in the sentence. Underline the part that is not in academic style and change it to academic style.).
Evaluation Feedback on strong points and areas for improvement will be provided for written assignments. Last update: Cotte Pamela Danielle, M.A. (21.01.2025)
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Current affairs sources may include: The BBC; The Economist; written and broadcast news and news analyses; academic journals; European Union reports and analyses; chapters from academic books; videos; Oxford and Cambridge debates and lectures
Academic writing sources: Cambridge Academic English Upper intermediate and Advanced; Oxford EAP Advanced (English for Academic Purposes); British Council English for Academics course; current CJP Academic English courses; IMS thesis information (e.g. “manual” for MA thesis seminars; Methodological Seminar syllabus)
Manchester Academic Phrasebank. This is an excellent resource for generic academic phrases. https://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ Last update: Cotte Pamela Danielle, M.A. (21.01.2025)
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Lessons will be taught in person. Academic writing and European current affairs will be taught using a content-based approach with a focus on East-Central Europe. Expressing and communicating ideas are seen as integral parts of the writing process so the focus will be on active use of academic English through activities including academic writing, listening, debates, discussion, analysis, grammar and style exercises and peer review of writing. Active participation of students will be emphasized using pairwork, groupwork and individual work. Last update: Lochmanová Sára, Mgr. (31.01.2024)
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For details see Podmínky zakončení předmětu. Last update: Cotte Pamela Danielle, M.A. (31.01.2024)
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EACH LESSON WILL FOCUS ON ONE CURRENT AFFAIRS TOPIC RELATED TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (CEE). TOPICS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON CURRENT EVENTS.
Lesson 1 Trust in the EU; Euroskepticism; inequality Academic writing: What is academic English?; describing trends Lesson 2 Czech society and politics Lesson 3 Is populism a threat to democracy? The EU response to rule of law violations in Hungary or case study of e.g. Germany, France, Slovakia, Slovakia, Poland, Holland Lesson 4 Ukraine: European security and defence Lesson 5 United in diversity? economic, social, cultural, North-South Lesson 6 United in diversity? Are post-communist Member States different than other Member States? Case study: stereotypes in football or another related case study Lesson 7 The European Green Deal: transition from coal in Central Europe Lesson 8 EU structural and investment funds: purpose, solidarity, effectiveness, corruption Lesson 9 EU enlargement: Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, the Western Balkans Lesson 10 Ageing population as a key economic challenge; immigration Lesson 11 EU strengths Case study: Brexit Lesson 12 Student presentations
ACADEMIC WRITING CONTENT WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Academic English style and grammar conventions; Punctuation - Academic style principles; qualifying and hedging; use of passive voice; nominalisation; use of articles; subject-verb agreement - Punctuation: connectors (conjunctions), e.g. to express cause and effect; colons, semicolons and commas Essay types and structure; Signposting language; Structuring paragraphs Reading strategies Critical thinking; Supporting claims with evidence; In-text references; Summarizing and paraphrasing; Reporting verbs and reporting verb tenses; Choosing paraphrase or quotation Content editing and proofreading - editing for structure, academic style, grammar, supporting claims with evidence Use of databases Seminar papers; Brief introduction to thesis writing (thesis structure, parts and self-study exercises) Writing about methodology and data - Explaining methodology and rationale; Discussing and interpreting data in figures, graphs and tables Writing resources: Seminar paper guidelines; The Manchester Academic Phrasebank; Thesis structure and parts Academic presentation skills: presenting an argument, a thesis or academic research
Last update: Cotte Pamela Danielle, M.A. (13.02.2025)
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