Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of American Studies
- Code
- BBI-AME17-208E
- Title
- Scholarly Writing
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This is a writing class with essay writing assignments both in class and out. The aim of the class is to further delve into the particulars of academic writing, building on the previously learned concepts. Style and logic are applied to longer essays allowing the investigation of the problems that arise with longer writing. Emphasis will be placed on the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing.
- Course content
- This class is the advanced course for American English Rhetoric and Writing Composition. The details of writing longer works and the nuances of communicating in an academic environment of a university along with communicating with professors and academic colleagues are studied. This course also includes information for thesis writing.
- Assessment method
- 20% Peer Grading: 10% Essay 1 (1500 words): 20% Essay 2 (2500 words): 20% Essay 3 (3500 words): 30% If not more than 3 classes are missed the grades will be assigned as the following: 100 to 90 of total points = 5 89 to 80 of total points = 4 79 to 70 of total points = 3 69 to 60 of total points = 2
- Bibliography
- William Strunk and E.B. White: The Elements of Style (4th Edition). Macmillan, 1935.