Close sidebar Home » Services and Admin » Language Centre » Languages » English » Advanced English for Academic and Policy Writing Open sidebar menu Advanced English for Academic and Policy Writing Advanced academic literacy with a disciplinary specialisation is essential for all postgraduate students and researchers. This course is designed to support you during your Masters studies at the EUI. This course will help you to formulate the ideas and arguments you plan to use in your written assignments. You will learn to write clearly, elegantly, and in a register appropriate to Masters-level studies at the EUI. English 520 Effective Academic Writing STG Masters students Time Spring session starts on 17 January Monday Place & Instructor Buontalenti Jonathan Fitchett Fergal Treanor English 521 Master Project Writing STG Masters students Time Spring session starts on 19 January Wednesday Place & Instructor Buontalenti Jonathan Fitchett Fergal Treanor Learning outcomes By the end of the course, you will be able to build clear and elegant sentences in academic English be able to link sentences and paragraphs together to produce clear, reader-friendly texts have an expanded repertoire of lexicogrammatical resources for academic expression in English feel more confident about your control of accuracy when writing be familiar with the conventions of register and style associated with academic genres in English. Course contents Course materials are provided by the EUI English Unit. The course includes work on the following: Writing academic papers Choice-making in language use Textual coherence and cohesion Formulating arguments Data commentary Building your repertoire of academic language The instructor will analyse the class needs at the beginning of the course and will accordingly give more or less weight to the various areas above. Learning methods and activities The methodology draws on various traditions in writing instruction, but is heavily influenced by EAP, genre-based instruction, and Academic Literacies. Activities in and out of class include: readings discussions controlled exercises independent writing Work outside class will be kept to a minimum. If you wish for additional exercises, of course, your instructor will provide them for you. Page last updated on 08 December 2021