Written Production II is part of Module EB6 (Consolidating C1/3 ECTS; requirements: a pass in EB 5.3 UV Written Production I) and revolves around the practice and theory of academic writing. This course is focused on certain genres (argumentative essays, description/descriptive texts, email of complaint, blog responses) with their typical registers. Participants will be given ample opportunity to put theory into practice through a number of writing tasks and written assignments.
Attainment Targets/Learning Outcomes:
· The students will acquire a wide range of stylistic expressions and devices in order to elegantly bridge their sentences, paragraphs and ideas when writing academic essays (argumentative) and descriptive texts.
· The students will learn how to paraphrase and summarize primary and secondary sources in an academically appropriate style, making expert use of dictionaries, thesauri and collocation dictionaries.
· The students will be able to express their ideas in an academically acceptable way, following the stylistic norms and conventions of the aforementioned genres.
· The students will learn to employ certain techniques when writing the text types central to our course (argumentative essay, email of complaint, descriptive text and blog response).