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Academic Literacy

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Academic Literacy

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Course 1 of 5 in the Specialization English for Research Publication Purposes

This is the first course of the English for Research Publication Purposes Specialization. The course is an introduction to what you need to know about academic discourse. You’ll gain important critical reading skills to help you develop as a self-critical scientific writer. You will learn practical tools and effective strategies for increasing your academic vocabulary and grammar so that you will write well-structured coherent academic texts.

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MODULE I: THE READING–RESEARCH–WRITING CONTINUUM

This module will help you acquire critical reading skills so that you will develop as a self-critical writer. The module covers issues related to reading discipline-specific literature, which is indispensable from developing professional expertise in writing academic texts. The focus is on fundamental concepts of scientific writing, such as logical organization and argumentation.

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Meet the Instructors

Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you all to the academic literacy course.

The course is intended as an introduction to academic literacy in English, and is

designed to help you gain fluency, in the conventions of academic discourse which

refers to the worries of thinking and using language which exist in the academy.

The course will help you identify, understand, and write academic text,

needed for your academic study and professional practice in your discipline.

What is academic literacy?

It can be defined as the ability to understand a range of academic vocabulary

in context, interpret and use connotations in discipline-specific texts,

understand relations between different parts of a text, understand the logical

development of an academic text from introductions to conclusions and

know how to use language, which serves to make the different parts of a text cohere.

Interpret different kinds of academic texts and

show sensitivity for the meaning they convey and the audience they are aimed at.

Make distinctions between essential and non essential information, fact and

opinion, propositions and arguments, and distinguish between cause and effect.

Know what counts as evidence for an argument and

make meaning of an academic text beyond the level of the sentence.

Academic literacy skills can be developed through reading and

writing which are essential elements of everyday academic experience.

Reading to accumulate knowledge and writing to put knowledge and

personal ideas to work.

While the main goal of reading is to reflect on meaning, reflecting on language

is very important in writing to make sure that ideas are expressed properly.

In the first module, you will learn how to become constructively critical as a reader

and how you can apply this skill to become self critical as a writer.

In addition, the first module focuses on selecting relevant literature and

synthesizing sources into a critical analytical argument.

The second module introduces word-formation strategies

that can be useful for developing your discipline-specific vocabulary.

The third module covers basic grammatical conventions

that typify an academic writing style.

The aim of the fourth module is to familiarize you with academic discourse

and ways to present the purpose of your research and its rationale.

To engage you in the purpose of learning, we have created a compelling animated

story that will keep you guessing about what is there in each video lecture?

The main character of the story,

a novice researcher, will be going through hardships to the stars in order to become

a successful academic writer who knows how to write a well-structured,

clear and accurate research publication to get published in a scholarly journal.

Prepare yourself to be challenged, excited and inspired.

I wish you many wonderful hours of reading and

writing with our academic literacy course.

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