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| ELL3000 | Advanced Research Methods | 4+0+0 | ECTS:6 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Group study | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 4 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Öğr. Gör. Dr Zeynep ÖZTÜRK DUMAN | | Co-Lecturer | Lec. Saye Zibande | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The purpose of the academic writing course is to develop writing skills at the advanced level. The class will focus on various academic writing activities such as summarizing and synthesizing, rhetorical analysis, argumentation and academic research paper. The academic research paper will provide a guideline for students on how to write their graduation theses at the fourth year. Another focus will be researching as a pre-writing activity and students will be given guidelines about how to use resources, what sources to use and how to cite them using the APA style. Reading texts and discussion activities will be used as starters of the writing process. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | differentiate between various academic writing genres. | 6,7,29,30,31 | 1,6 | | LO - 2 : | conduct literature searches which is a preparation for academic writing activities and learn to use the existing databases effectively. | 6,7,29,30,31 | 1,6 | | LO - 3 : | differentiate between conventions of MLA and APA styles and apply them while preparing projects and papers. | 6,7,29,30,31 | 1,6 | | LO - 4 : | do research and summarize, paraphrase, synthesize sources they have found about the subjects of Linguistics, Language Teaching and English Literature.
| 6,7 | 1,6 | | LO - 5 : | prepare written projects which follow the conventions of academic writing and which make references to various sources. | 6,7,29,30,31 | 1,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Diagnostic writing. Summarizing and synthesizing. Writing a research proposal and a short research paper. The APA and MLA Styles: Citing and referencing. Research sources: Academic Search Engines. The Academic Research Paper. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Discussion of class content.Requirements of the course. What is academic writing? Analyzing an academic essay. Parts of an academic essay.
| | | Week 2 | Analyzing academic essays from various journals and making comparisons.
| | | Week 3 | What is a research proposal?
How to outline research.
How to write a research proposal.
Practice writing research proposals.
Students start writing their research proposals in class.
Using research done by the students and the preliminary research proposals, the proposals will be edited and polished.
| | | Week 4 | Students make their last decisions about Further discussion of research proposal and feedback on the research proposals. | | | Week 5 | Writing an introduction.
Key points.
What to include in an introduction.
Language used in introductions. | | | Week 6 | Writing an introduction.
Discussion and revision of rough drafts of student introductions.
Checking them against sample introductions. | | | Week 7 | Doing a literature review.
How to do literature search using databases.
| | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Doing literature reviews.
Discusion of sample literature reviews and task 5.
Writing a literature review in class practice.
Working on rough drafts of literature reviews.
| | | Week 10 | Feedback and revision of literature reviews.How to paraphrase and quote from secondary sources.
Introductory words for paraphrases.Introduction to MLA and APA rules for in-text citations.
| | | Week 11 | Discussion of in-text citation rules. MLA and APA rules.
| | | Week 12 | Writing the methodology section of an article.
Discussion of methodology section, questions to ask.
Writing practice on the methodology section. MLA and APA rules. | | | Week 13 | Writing the methodology section of an article.
Revising and editing methodology sections.
In class discussion and practice.
| | | Week 14 | Writing data analysis and results section.
Reading and analysing sample data-analysis and results sections of selected articles.
Reading and analysing sample data-analysis and results sections of selected articles.
Summarizing results using tables.
Discussion of data analysis section.
Writing practice on the data analysis section
| | | Week 15 | Writing data analysis and results section.
Discussion of data analysis section.
Revision and editing on the data analysis and results sections. Further revision and editing on the data analysis and results sections.
Students questions.
| | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Lester, J. D. (2005) . Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide. London: Pearson Longman | | | |
| 1 | Hacker, D. ( 2001) . A Pocket Style Manual. New York: Bedford/ St. | | | 2 | Martin'sChaffe, J. , M. C. Mahon, C. , Stout, B. ( 2004) . Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing: A Rhetoric with Readings. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 29/03/2010 | 1,5 | 30 | | Project | 10 | 16/04/2010 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 24/05/2010 | 1,5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2.5 | 7 | 17.5 | | Arasınav | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Proje | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 7 | 21 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 117.5 |
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