Academic Writing for Doctorands | 2017/18

Online Resources

BBC Learning English , British Council Learn English , Learn English Today

Phonetic transcription of English words
Oxford Learner's Dictionary , Oxford Living Dictionary,  Cambridge Dictionary: Grammar
Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Phrase Finder , Online Etymology Dictionary

Academic Phrasebank (Univ. Manchester), UEfAP (Using English for Academic Purposes), Academic Writing in English (Finnish Virtual University)
Word and Phrase.info , Academic Vocabulary
Corpus Concordance English (Compleat Lexical Tutor), British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American English , British Academic English Corpus
Explorations of Style
(blog), The Impact Blog (LSE)

Jones, Quinn, Brown, Writing for Sociology, Dept Sociology, Univ. California, Berkeley, 2011

6 October
Articles and extracts
Expository paragraphs: basic structure (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 12)
Introductions and the CaRS model (various sources). J. Swales, Create a Research Space (CARS) Model of Research Introductions (summary).
CaRS model of introductions (Academic Writing in English , Finnish Virtual University.)

Grammar and vocabulary
Key nouns (Cambridge Academic Vocabulary in Use).

13 October
Articles and extracts
Expository paragraphs: paragraph unity (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 13), Conjunctions.
Three rhetorical moves in an introduction. (examples of CaRS with exercises. Authorial stance in introductions)

Grammar and Vocabulary
However, nevertheless, moreover.
albeit, although, though
however, nevertheless, nonetheless, howbeit, ...

20 October
Constructing a research paper II (Swales and Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills, Unit 8)
Paragraph development: illustration and restatement,
Paragraph development: comparison, contrast and analogy (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 14,15)
Grammar and Vocabulary
notwithstanding (preposition, adverb, conjunction)

27 October - NO CLASS

3 November 
CARS analysis: Siepmann, Brooks and Manza, Giesler and Veresiu
Paragraph development: cause and effect,
Paragraph development: definition, analysis, and qualification, (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 16,17)
Structuring an academic 'argument' within a journal paper.


10 November 
CARS analysis: Aasen et al., Richardson
D. Siepmann, Academic writing and culture. J. Galtung, Structure, culture, and intellectual style.

17 November - NO CLASS

24 November 
CARS analysis:  Kristian

1 December 
[CARS analysis of introduction to paper by L. Linek and I. Petrusek]
 
8 December 
CARS analysis: Olya

Hyland, A move-structure classification of abstracts
Guide to writing good abtracts (LSE Impact Blog), Killer conference abstracts (LSE Impact Blog).
Patrick Dunleavy, Writing informative abstracts for journal articles (medium.com)
Abstracts, Titles (Swales and Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills, Unit 8)

Abstracts for discussion:  Ivan [conference paper abstract: European Sociological Association, Athens 2017]

Sentence styles (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 19)
The well-written sentence (1): concision (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 20)
 
15 December 

Abstracts for discussion:  Kristián [grant proposal summary/abstract], Lukáš
N. L. Cole, How to write an abstract in sociology (ThoughtCo.)
 
12 January  

Abstracts for discussion: Jitka [conference abstract]
Tips for writing conference abstracts (North Carolina State Univ., Dept History)
Introducing work (Academic Phrasebank)

The Differend (Jeanne Willette, Art History Unstuffed)
 
19 January  

Transition words (Gregory Campbell and John Dowell)
Transitional words and phrases (Univ. Richmond Writing Center)
Cohesion: conjunction
Templates
Comma before because?
 
26 January  

Cohesion in writing (Maria Koutraki, Univ. Crete, OpenCourse in Academic Writing), esp. examples pp. 24-26
Exercise - fill in missing connectors ( TedPower)
Cohesion strategies: transitional words and phrases (ThoughtCo), Combining and connecting sentences exercise.
The well-written sentence (2): emphasis (T. Kane, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, 1988, ch. 21)
 
2 February  


2 March  

How to write a conference abstract (extract from Catherine Baker's blog post)
Templates (Graff and Birkinstein, They Say, I Say).
D. Siepmann, Academic writing and culture. J. Galtung, Structure, culture, and intellectual style,
S. Cmejrkova, Academic Writing in English and Czech

9 March  

Tips for getting a journal article published ( OUP blog)

16 March  

Statement types (extract from Ch. 2 of B. Latour and S. Woolgar, Laboratory Life, 1979)
Summary of the opening section of M. Turner and F.-N. Thomas, Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, 1994 ( Pablo Stafforini), D. Dutton, Writing Classic Prose, 1997 (review of this book)
Classic style (opening of the book by M. Turner and F.-N. Thomas)
Classic Style is not Practical Style (extract from Writing Classic Prose)
Online Guide with Exercises and Additional Museum Exhibits For Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
Steven Pinker & others on academic writing
K. Hyland, Hedging in Academic Writing, 1994

23 March
Hedging ( UEFAP) K. Horn, The Consequences of Citing Hedged Statements in Scientific Research Articles, BioScience 51: 12

6 April
J. Bogen and J. Woodward, Saving the phenomena, Phil. Review (July 1988)

Punctuation for connecting words (Douglas College), Transition words: punctuation ( English essay writing tips)
Oxford Univ. Style Guide (p.11-18 for punctuation)

13 April
Academic writing: punctuation (UEAFP), Comma exercise
Useful email phrases

20 April
Neither, neither...nor and not...either

27 April
Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies: Case Study Research Methods

4 May
H. Sword, Hooks and Sinkers, Chapter 7 from Stylish Academic Writing. (A cautionary note on CARS.)
Dr Who or Professor Who? On Academic Email Etiquette ( ThermalToy)
The 100 most useful emailng phrases (Alex Case, UsingEnglish.com)
prevail

11 May
Examples of biographical statements
Writing an academic biography Lead-in/ Needs analysis interview ( TEFLtastic)
Narrating Your Professional Life: Writing the Academic Bio (GradHacker)
Biographical Profiles of Current Ph.D. Graduate Students (School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton Univ.), Graduate student biographies (Dept Communication Studies, Concordia)
Czech-English dictionary of university terminology (PF UK)
How to translate your degree from Czech to English (UTB, Zlin)
What You Need to Know Before You Write a Bio Statement ( NC State Univ.)
Genre analysis of biostatements (Tardy and Swales, Genre Analysis, in: Schenider and Barron (eds.), Pragmatics of Discourse, 2014)
K. Hyland and P. Tse, 'She has received many honours': Identity construction in article bio statements
K. Hyland, Narrative, Identity and Academic Storytelling

18 May

25 May