Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library.

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.

Unit 1. Preliminaries of Academic Writing. Critical reading, ideas, notes and drafts, elaborating on the conventions of various genres –including essays, research papers, conference papers, articles, book reviews, etc. 

PART 1 THE WRITING PROCESS 

Background to Writing 

Reading: Finding Suitable Sources 

Reading: Developing Critical Approaches 

Avoiding Plagiarism

Finding Key Points and Note-making 

PART 4 WRITING MODELS 

Literature Reviews and Book Reviews 

Writing Longer Essays 

Writing an abstract 

Preparing a presentation 

To learn more

Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library.

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.

UNIT 2:  Techniques for the elaboration of an academic paper: quotations, bibliographical references and indexes based on the MLA Style Manual 

References and Quotations

Self-Assessment Exercises 

Complementary Exercises 

Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library.

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.

Unit 3. Strategies and discursive, rhetoric and lexico-grammatical devices for the production of academic papers 

PART 2 ELEMENTS OF WRITING 

Argument and discussion 

Cause and effect 

Comparisons 

Definite articles 

Definitions 

Examples 

Generalisations 

Passives 

Problems and solutions 

Punctuation 

Singular or plural? 

Style 

PART 3 VOCABULARY FOR WRITING 

Approaches to Vocabulary 

Abbreviations 

Conjunctions 

Numbers 

Prefixes and Suffixes 

Prepositions 

Synonyms 

Time Markers 

Self-Assessment Exercises 

Complementary Exercises 

Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library.

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.

Unit 4. Organization and hierarchy of information, structure and development of outlines, first versions, drafts and proof-reading 

PART 1 THE WRITING PROCESS 

Summarising and paraphrasing 

Combining sources 

Organising paragraphs 

Introductions and conclusions 

Rewriting and Proofreading 

Self-Assessment Exercises 

Complementary Exercises

Most of the content of this unit is from the course book available online from the university library.

Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. New York: Routledge.

Unit 5. Writing and edition: how to achieve cohesion and coherence in a text, and how to use the appropriate academic register 

PART 2 ELEMENTS OF WRITING  

Cohesion 

PART 3 VOCABULARY FOR WRITING  

Academic Vocabulary: Nouns and Adjectives 

Academic Vocabulary: Adverbs and Verbs 

Self-Assessment Exercises 

Complementary Exercises