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课程名称：书写你的世界：在学术空间中找到自我 课程概述：写作在全世界范围内用来表达、记录甚至创造有意义的时刻。在学术领域，写作成为了我们与思想世界之间的桥梁。本课程提供了关于如何撰写学术论文的实用见解，并帮助您发展成为合格学术作家的学术技能。您将有机会与学者撰写的文本互动，了解这些文本中的观点是如何被学生运用到学术论文写作中的。我们将讨论学生在学术写作中面临的一些挑战，并为您提供实践和发展自己写作风格的机会。本课程以“身份”这一主题为核心，因为身份是我们在不断变化的全球化世界中定位自我的重要特征。本课程将教会您通过写作和反思自己对身份的理解来掌握学术写作技能，因此，无论您是考虑在高等教育机构学习，还是想提升自己的学术论文写作技能，这门课程都适合您！ 课程大纲： 1. **开始写作：理解身份的定义** - 这一周我们将探讨学术写作的实用方面，比如结构和定义关键术语的重要性。我们将集中讨论“身份”这一术语。在听取Kath Woodward关于身份的意见后，三位学生作家Ada、Ziggy和Joey将撰写他们对身份的定义。我们强调写作是一种过程，会对学生的定义提供反馈，并为您提供草拟身份定义的机会，并与其他学习者互相反馈。 2. **发展论点：转变中的身份** - 第二周进一步探讨了身份概念，重点考虑流动性对身份的影响。随着人们跨越国界的历史，个体往往被视为“外来者”或威胁。我们还将讨论好的学术论文的特征，重点介绍了引言的写作。任务是撰写一篇大学级别的引言，分析三位学生作家的引言并提供建设性反馈。 3. **支持论点：将身份置于文化背景中** - 本周讨论文化及其在个体流动中的相关性。通过研究一位来自英国的学生来到南非约翰内斯堡的案例，思考文化的归属问题，以及我们在不同背景下的异同。同时，分析Thornton对文化的观点，理解文化资源的不同可及性如何影响身份建构。我们将提供关于段落写作、连贯性和一致性的实用指导，并介绍引用的重要性。 4. **从开始到结束：撰写初稿** - 本周总结课程所覆盖的内容，专注于撰写最终论文草稿。回顾学术论文的基本构建块，强调引言、主体、结论的特征及其连贯性、一致性的目的。对三位虚拟学生撰写的草稿进行详细反馈，针对其优势和改进机会进行讨论，并总结课程中介绍的四位思想家的观点。
Name:Starting to write: Understanding definitions of identity
Description:This week, we will consider practical aspects of academic writing, such as structure and the importance of defining key terms in an essay. The term we will focus on this week is identity. After hearing Kath Woodward’s ideas on identity, our three student writers, Ada, Ziggy, and Joey will write their own definitions of identity. Emphasising that writing is a process, we will give feedback on the students writers’ definitions. We will then provide you with the opportunity to draft your definition of identity, give feedback to other learners and receive feedback from them.
Name: Developing an argument: shifting identities
Description:Week 2 further develops the concept of identity by considering the effects of mobility on one’s identity. Throughout history, as individuals moved across borders, they were either welcomed or perceived as an outsider or a threat. In South Africa during Apartheid, people within the country were further separated into ‘homelands’, and those who challenged the boundaries such as Nelson Mandela were labelled as criminals and terrorists. To help you formulate ideas on such concepts in your essay, we now consider the features of a good academic essay focusing on the introduction. We also introduce a three-part strategy to approach your readings: preview, overview and inview. The task for this week is drafting an introduction at university level. We identify key features of an introduction, then look at introductions written by our three student writers, and provide them with constructive feedback.
Name:Supporting the argument: situating identity within culture
Description:This week begins with a discussion of culture and its relevance when individuals become mobile, moving between geographical and social contexts. We look at a case study of a student from the United Kingdom who comes to Johannesburg, South Africa. The case study helps us to think about who owns culture and how different or similar we are across contexts. Next, we consider Thornton’s arguments about culture. He argues against the view that there are many cultures and notes that there is only culture. Thornton considers culture as a resource to which people have different degrees of access. Some examples of cultural resources are clothes, money, beliefs, ideas. Individuals draw on these to construct their identity, but unequal access to these resources that are valued gives some people more possibilities to construct identities that are dominant and more valued. This creates a semblance of difference between groups of people. As people move across borders, these differences may become heightened, because some of the cultural resources that an individual carries with her, may cease to be relevant or may be seen as threatening. So, when supporting one’s argument about what happens to identity as individuals move across borders, it is important to delve into culture and how culture creates differences, how it may accentuate boundaries, and how these may or may not impact on identity. Writing paragraphs in support of one’s argument requires close attention to how the paragraphs link with the position, and with other ideas across the paragraphs. Hence, we offer practical guidelines on paragraphing, coherence and cohesion. We give an example of a well-written paragraph and analyse its form to see why it is good. We then review paragraphs submitted by our three student writers and note what is strong and what could be improved in each. We introduce the core aspects of referencing in essays. We also explain why referencing is an important part of academic writing when we are referring to different people’s views (or voices) and distinguishing these from our own.
Name:Starting to finish: writing the first draft
Description:This week we sum up the ground we have covered in this course. The week is about crafting your final essay draft. We recap the building blocks of writing an academic essay, relooking at the features of an introduction, body, conclusion and the purposes of cohesion, coherence and referencing. We also consider and provide engaged feedback on the draft essays written by our three virtual students. There is detailed feedback on the strengths, improvements and opportunities for further improvement on the essays. The feedback is aligned with the core skills introduced in the course, such as writing the topic sentence, linking sentences and ensuring coherence and cohesion. Thereafter we sum up the course with a discussion on the ideas of the four thinkers you were introduced to in this course, namely Woodward, Sichone, Blommaert and Thornton.
Throughout the world, writing serves to express, record and even create meaningful moments. In academic spaces, writing becomes the bridge between ourselves and the world of ideas. In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer. You will have an opportunity to engage with texts written by academics, and to see how some of the ideas in these texts are used by students in constructing an academic essay. We address some of the challenges these students face with respect to academic writing and offer you the opportunity to practice and to develop your own writing style. For this course, we centre our lessons around a specific topic - the concept of identity, since it forms such an important feature of how we locate ourselves in an ever-changing global world. In other words, this course teaches academic writing skills through getting you to write and reflect on your understanding of identity. So if you are thinking about studying at a tertiary institution, or if you just want to brush up on your academic essay writing skills, this course is for you!
