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- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Huang Chunmei
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Fri5-6(S511)
- Group
- A
- Course number
- TAL.C501
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2019
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2019/4/12
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- English
- Access Index
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Course description and aims
This course is designed to improve students' skills to write research articles in English. The course will help students develop their basic writing skills, and will provide them with strategies to present an argument effectively in scientific papers, using appropriate vocabulary and expressions.
As a course for ToTAL, Global Writing will help you to become a better writer, who can write clearly and persuasively in a reader-friendly manner.
Student learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) write a well-organized essay, research paper or a paragraph.
2) write grammatical sentences and communicate clearly in written English.
3) use vocabulary and expressions widely used in scientific papers.
Keywords
writing, structure, grammar, persuasiveness
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
After a lecture on the structure of essays and research papers, students will practice writing short essays and parts of research papers in English either in class or as homework. They will review written work by other students in class, and learn better ways of writing.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Course introduction and review paragraph structure | write a paragraph about your research |
| Class 2 | Essay structure: thesis statement and supporting paragraphs | Revise the paragraph Write a short essay |
| Class 3 | Writing a research paper: Introduction | Revise the essay Write the introduction section of a research paper |
| Class 4 | Paraphrase/summary, citation and reference | Find 5-6 references Summary/paraphrase practice Revise the introduction section |
| Class 5 | Writing a research paper: Methodology | Write the methodology section of a research paper |
| Class 6 | Writing a research paper: Results | Write the results section of a research paper Revise the Methodology section |
| Class 7 | Writing a research paper: Discussion/Conclusion | Write the discussion/conclusion section Revise the results section |
| Class 8 | Final presentation | Revise the conclusion section Submit the final draft of the research paper within a week |
Textbook(s)
none
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts will be provided in class.
Assessment criteria and methods
Class participation: 30%
Assignments: 50%
Final paper/presentation: 20%
Related courses
- TAL.C401 ： Global Presentation
- TAL.C402 ： Global Communication
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
N/A
