Writing Skills for University Success

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课程名称:大学成功写作技能 课程概述:写作是大学课程中一项至关重要的技能,无论你主修历史、商业管理、经济学还是工程。在本课程中,你将学习如何在不同学术格式中有效写作,特别是论文和长篇研究论文。你将学习如何选择论文主题,如何寻找可靠的写作资源,以及如何组织你的想法以便清晰地传达,并符合教授的期望。此外,你将了解在写作中正确引用来源的重要性,以及大学对学术诚实的规范。清晰的写作沟通能力是大学工作和未来职业成功的关键。与其他技能一样,练习越多,你将越容易和熟练地掌握它。 课程大纲: 1. 准备学术写作 - 本周,我们将讨论学术写作的一些基本方面。你将学习写作过程,即熟练作家在计划、写作和修改工作时所经过的步骤,并回顾如何写出清晰有效的段落。你将了解学术写作风格与非正式写作的区别,以及如何避免抄袭。 2. 写作论文 - 本周,我们将重点讨论一种重要的学术写作形式——论文。你将学习论文的构成部分,包括如何写出吸引读者的引言段,论文主体中需要包含的支持材料,以及如何撰写一个强有力的结论段,以回顾论文的主旨。 3. 准备写作研究论文 - 本周,你将学习写作较长的作业——研究论文。我们将讨论如何扩展学术论文的基本格式,使用引述、释义和摘要来整合源材料,使论文更加有说服力。同时,你会学习选择合适的研究论文主题和列出包含的要点。 4. 写作研究论文 - 在课程的最后一周,你将更加深入了解研究论文,包括如何撰写良好的论点陈述,寻找并评估信息来源,确定有效的学术来源。你将学习如何将源中的观点融入论文,并正确引用这些资料,同时分析论点陈述,以判断其是否符合良好的学术写作标准。 让我们开始这个写作之旅吧!

课程大纲

Name:Getting Ready for Academic Writing

Description:In this first week of the course, we’ll be going over some very basic aspects of academic writing. You’ll learn about the writing process—the steps skilled writers go through in planning, writing, and revising their work—and review the basics of writing clear, effective paragraphs. You’ll learn about academic writing style and how it differs from more informal writing. Finally, you’ll learn about the problem of plagiarism—using someone else’s words and letting the reader think that you’ve written them yourself—and some strategies for avoiding it in your own work. Being able to observe all these basic aspects of academic writing will help you meet your professors’ expectations for what academic writing should look like. So let’s get started!

Name:Writing an Essay

Description:This week you’ll hear about a very important type of academic writing—the essay. You’ll hear about what an essay is and what its expected parts are. You’ll learn about writing strong introduction paragraphs that catch the reader’s interest and state the topic of the essay. You’ll hear about different kinds of support to include in the body of the essay, and how to write a strong conclusion paragraph that brings the essay full circle by reminding the reader of your main idea. Finally, you’ll practice by reading and evaluating short essays to see how well they match the requirements of a good essay. Let’s begin!

Name:Getting Ready to Write a Research Paper

Description:This week you’ll learn about a longer type of writing assignment—a research paper. First, we’ll think about how to begin to write longer assignments by expanding the basic format of an academic essay. You’ll learn how to use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries to incorporate source material to make your essay longer and more persuasive. You’ll also hear about choosing an appropriate topic for a research paper and outlining the ideas you want to include in your paper. Finally, you’ll write a summary of an article and share your writing with classmates to get their opinion. So let’s get ready to write!

Name:Writing a Research Paper

Description:In this final week of the course, you’ll learn more about research papers, starting with how to write an good thesis statement. We’ll talk about finding and evaluating sources of information for your paper and identifying valid, scholarly sources that will strengthen your paper. You’ll see how to incorporate ideas from your sources into your paper and how to cite the source of facts or quoted words . You’ll learn some basic facts about common formats for research papers and works cited pages. Finally, you’ll practice by analyzing thesis statements and deciding which meet the criteria for good academic writing. Let’s get to it!

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Writing is a vital skill in university classes, whether you’re majoring in history or business management, economics or engineering. In this course, you’ll learn how to write effectively in different academic formats, especially essays and longer research papers. You’ll learn how to choose a topic for a paper, how to find reliable resources for writing it, and how to organize your ideas in a way that communicates clearly and fits the expectations of your professors. You’ll learn about the importance of correctly citing sources in your writing and university norms regarding academic honesty. Communicating clearly in writing is an important key to success both in university work and in your future career. As with any other skill, the more you practice, the more easily and skillfully you’ll be able to do it.

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