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Kar

Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar

Szervezet

PPK Pszichológiai Intézet

Kód

PSYB17-135:3

Cím

Psychological Skill Training: Academic Writing and Presentation Skills

Tervezett félév

Őszi

Meghirdetve

2025/26/2

ECTS

2

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The goal of the course The aim of the course is to get engaged in academic English not just in writing, but in other forms of presentation as well. The course will also help improve writing ability in a variety of scientific text types, focusing on sentence-level lexis, text coherence and cohesion, and appropriate style. In doing so, the course is to help improve the ability to perform in all written tasks on students’ own degree programme: course assignments, research paper reports, examination essays and dissertation. Furthermore, the course will help develop the confidence and capability to give good presentations, and to stand up in front of an audience and speak well, which are also extremely helpful competencies for self-development. In this seminar, students will be asked to prepare written materials in groups in the lessons and at home, and to prepare and individually deliver an oral presentation on a freely chosen subject in front of the class. During the classes, the students will receive continuous feedback from both the teacher and peers. Those who are about to write their first major research paper in this semester are most welcome to participate in this course.

Tantárgy tartalma

Topic of the course The course could have different topics depending on which optional courses are chosen by students. Here should be a general structure of the course: Research paradigms and methodological approaches, a short presentation of models, integration of previously acquired knowledge in methodological thinking Discuss about typical cases, examples, problems, research questions, psychological issues Measurement methods and techniques, opportunities and technical solutions for analysing human behaviour Gaining own experiences near a systematic and professional supervision: getting own experiences, own research, measurements, preparing analysis Discuss about different experience gathered in the courses, summary about experiences from working with different methodologies, techniques, discuss about applicability of techniques and about some ethical issues of everyday practice. Examples for optional courses: Communicational skill training, Academic Writing and Presentation Skills, Statistical Analysis of Psychological Data, Working with Groups, Time Management Training, Autogenic Training, etc. Learning activities, learning methods Could be presentation, research, training, working in teams, consultation, case study, etc. depending on the chosen course and the teacher

Számonkérés és értékelés

Conditions of the course completion 1.      Presence at the classes (max 2 classes can be missed) 2.      Active contribution and participation in the group writing exercises (30%) 3.      Oral presentation (70%) Recommended webpage (for APA format and References): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ Use the menu on the left side for details! APA style for internet sources http://www.apastyle.org/apa-style-help.aspx

Irodalomjegyzék

Bibliography, additional materials 1.      Kristin Blanpain: Academic Writing. A Resource for Researchers - Acco, Leuven 2012. ISBN: 9789033488566 2.      Gopen, G., and Swan, J. (1990). The Science of Scientific Writing If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs. American Scientist, 78, 550–558.

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