Informações sobre o curso: 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.

Para quem é direcionado este curso: The course is intended for a wide-range of academic audience from graduate to postgraduate students, from novice to mature researchers whose first, or native, language is not English.

Desenvolvido por: Instituto de Física e Tecnologia de Moscou

Ministrado por: Elena Bazanova, Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Informações básicas	Curso 1 de 5 no English for Research Publication Purposes Specialization
Nível	Intermediate
Compromisso	4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours per week.
Idioma	English
Como ser aprovado	Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso.
Classificação do usuário	4.5 estrelas Classificação média do usuário 4.5Veja o que os aprendizes disseram

Programa

SEMANA 1

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.

11 vídeos, 7 leituras, 4 questionários de prática

Leyendo: Elena Bazanova
Leyendo: MIPT
Leyendo: LTTC
Vídeo: Welcome video
Leyendo: Grading Policy
Vídeo: Introductory video
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview Test
Vídeo: Being Critical
Vídeo: Scientific Evidence
Vídeo: Critical Argument
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview Test
Vídeo: Starting Point
Vídeo: Research Questions
Vídeo: Formulating a Hypothesis
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Reading Literature
Vídeo: Interacting with Texts
Vídeo: Annotated Bibliography
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice 1
Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Forum
Leyendo: Recommended readings and resources
Leyendo: Takeaways
Leyendo: FAQ concerning peer-review assignments.

Nota atribuída: Graded Quiz

Nota atribuída: Graded quiz

Nota atribuída: End-of-Module Test

Nota atribuída: Peer-graded assignment

SEMANA 2

MODULE II : DEVELOPING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

This module covers issues related to building academic vocabulary. The module clarifies word-formation processes, i.e., affixation, conversion, and compounding. The focus is on strategic language re-use and ways of dealing with new words. The module provides software tools for extracting frequently occurring vocabulary specific to an area of research.

10 vídeos, 3 leituras, 3 questionários de prática

Vídeo: Introductory Video
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Building Blocks
Vídeo: Forming New Words
Vídeo: Nominalisations
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Noun Phrases
Vídeo: Strategic Language Re-Use
Vídeo: Dealing With New Words
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Treasure Store
Vídeo: Concordancing
Vídeo: Concept Mapping
Leyendo: Recommended readings and resources
Leyendo: Takeaways
Leyendo: FAQ concerning peer-review assignments.

Nota atribuída: Graded quiz

Nota atribuída: End-of-Module Test

Nota atribuída: Peer-graded assignment

SEMANA 3

MODULE III : FUNDAMENTALS OF ACADEMIC GRAMMAR

This module covers issues related to the pragmatics of academic English. The module presents an overview of the English verb system, including most frequent tenses, three aspects, and two voices. The module highlights the use of correct punctuality, which is of immense help in meeting the goal of the writing process: to ensure clear communication of ideas. The module also explains the role of modality and register in academic writing. Another important issue discussed in module is the use of parallel constructionsfor words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs of an academic text.

10 vídeos, 2 leituras, 4 questionários de prática

Vídeo: Introductory video
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Types of Verbs
Vídeo: Clauses
Vídeo: Verb Complements
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Verb Forms
Vídeo: Modality
Vídeo: Register
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Using Parallel Structure
Vídeo: Revising Sentences
Vídeo: Sentence Combining and Punctuation
Leyendo: Recommended readings and resources
Leyendo: Takeaways

Nota atribuída: Graded quiz

Nota atribuída: End-of-Module Test

SEMANA 4

MODULE IV : ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

The final module looks beyond the sentence to the ways that grammar structures paragraphs and longer texts. The module covers issues related to the textuality ofacademic texts, i.e. cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, andintertextuality. In particular, the module focuses on lexical and grammatical cohesion. The modulealso discusses the concept of paragraphing and what the topic sentence and the statement ofpurpose mean for effective academic writing.

10 vídeos, 3 leituras, 4 questionários de prática

Vídeo: Introductory video
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Cohesion and Coherence
Vídeo: Types of Cohesion
Vídeo: Grammatical Cohesion
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Basic Guideline
Vídeo: Topic Sentence
Vídeo: Paragraph Structure
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice
Cuestionario de práctica: Preview test
Vídeo: Crafting the Purpose Statement
Vídeo: Developing the Rationale
Vídeo: Commandments of Research Writing
Leyendo: FAQ concerning peer-review assignments.
Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Forum
Leyendo: Recommended readings and resources
Leyendo: Takeaways

Nota atribuída: Graded quiz

Nota atribuída: End-of-Module Test

Nota atribuída: Peer-graded Assignment

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Como funciona

Trabajo del curso

Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.

Ayuda de tus compañeros

Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.

Certificados

Obtén reconocimiento oficial por tu trabajo y comparte tu éxito con amigos, compañeros y empleadores.

Desenvolvedores

Instituto de Física e Tecnologia de Moscou

Московский физико-технический институт (неофициально известный как МФТИ или Физтех) является одним из самых престижных в мире учебных и научно-исследовательских институтов. Он готовит высококвалифицированных специалистов в области теоретической и прикладной физики, прикладной математики, информатики, биотехнологии и смежных дисциплин. Физтех был основан в 1951 году Нобелевской премии лауреатами Петром Капицей, Николаем Семеновым, Львом Ландау и Сергеем Христиановичем. Основой образования в МФТИ является уникальная «система Физтеха»: кропотливое воспитание и отбор самых талантливых абитуриентов, фундаментальное образование высшего класса и раннее вовлечение студентов в реальную научно-исследовательскую работу. Среди выпускников МФТИ есть Нобелевские лауреаты, основатели всемирно известных компаний, известные космонавты, изобретатели, инженеры.

Custo

	Comprar curso
Acesso aos materiais do curso	Disponível
Acesso a materiais valendo nota	Disponível
Receba uma nota final	Disponível
Obtenha um Certificado de Curso compartilhável	Disponível

Classificações e avaliações

Avaliado em 4.5 de 5 decorrente de 74 avaliações

Thank You for the course!

Great Course

It was very useful for me. But there are two things that were not so good: quizzes required us to WRITE some of the answers and it was impossible to know what we have done wrong. Also, we asked questions on the forums which were not answered.