English for Academic Purposes/ 2016
7 October
Articles and clips
Yes
Minister Brexit - an update (from
The Guardian) on earlier wisdom (transcript)
The
Rise of the Trump Academic, from The Sociological Review,
in response to Mark Carrigan’s How
to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul
Peter
Higgs on academic productivity
Grammar and vocabulary
Origin of the term hedge
Creepy
13 October
“Model answers” to ex. 8.2 on academic
writing style (Cambridge Academic English C1, p.51) – I think we did better!
Articles and clips
University of Lincoln
Research Showcase: Academic Freedom
Freedom of Speech: Why We
NEED Academic Freedom (from Learn
Liberty, Inst. for Humanist Studies)
Grammar and vocabulary
Finnish Virtual University Vocabulary choice,
with Exercises
Using
Appropriate Words in an Academic Essay (CELC, National University of
Singapore)
mettle,
put/keep on
your mettle, prove/show your
mettle, - example sentences using
‘mettle’
by/according
to one’s own lights
op-ed
20 October
Articles and clips
Survey of Academic Freedom in Europe,
email and selections from survey
Constantine Sandis, Free speech within
reason (THES)
What
did the Foreign and Commonwealth Office say to the London School of Economics
about foreign academics?
(see e.g. the Guardian’s article LSE
foreign academics told they will not be asked to advise UK on Brexit)
Grammar and vocabulary
English phonemes
ə (schwa)
foil: foil
a plan, foil one’s enemies, play foil to (some literary examples)
coot: crazy as a coot, bald as a coot [bald here meaning ‘marked with white’,
a sense seen also in the word piebald,
transferred to bald as in hairless]
tantamount
to
doublespeak, spin
(news management – Raymond Kuhn paper
on Labour spin)
doublethink
4 November
Articles and clips
What are you working on?
(video clip) Constantine Sandis
Academic
freedom summarized (Academic Senate, UCSC)
The
‘Idea of the University’ today (History
& Policy)
Philip G. Altbach, “Academic
freedom: International realities and challenges,” Higher Education 41: 205–219, 2001
AAUP on academic
freedom
AFAF, Why
Academic Freedom Matters (Civitas, 2016)
The UK: the Prevent Duty, and
the Research Excellence Framework.
The evolution
of intellectual freedom (PhD comics, thanks to Kateřina Papežová for the
link!)
Grammar and vocabulary
pat, pat dry, pat down,
a pat
on the back, pat
someone on the back = congratulate, have something
off or down pat = memorized perfectly, stand pat
academe
11 November
Articles and clips
Alan
Renwick and Meg Russell, We
need to talk about our democracy (The
Constitution Unit)
Harry Belafonte, What
Do We Have to Lose? Everything (New York Times)
Peter Pomerantsev, Why we’re
post-fact (Granta)
Nathan Jurgenson, factiness
(blog post). How’d
the polling go so, so, so wrong? (Fusion). Jill Lepore, Politics
and the new machine (New Yorker).
Niall Ferguson, Populism
as a backlash against globalization – historical perspectives (Horizons)
Garrison Keillor, Trump
voters will not like what happens next (Washington Post)
Jeff Guo, …why
Trump voters are so angry… (Washington Post blog)
Jonathan Freedland, A
world in doubt (NYRB)
[Various authors], Donald
Trump: reflections on the chaos (TLS)
Leonard Cohen, Everybody knows, (lyrics)
Grammar and vocabulary
Nominal groups
and nominalisation,
Helen Sword, Zombie
nouns (NYT), Henry Hitchings, The
Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns (NYT)
non-finite
clause
deixis
demagogue
bigotry
troll, trolling
alt-right (Guardian editorial
guidance)
pundit, spin doctor
pollyannaish
18 November (No class
due to Dean’s Day)
Emails in
academic
correspondence. (TEFLtastic). Spot
the errors in academic emails from students to faculty.
Useful
emailing phrases (UsingEnglish.com)
Academic
email etiquette (blog post)
25 November
Articles and clips
[Various
authors], Aftermath
(New Yorker)
David Tollerton, In
the age of Trump, why bother teaching students to argue logically?
Boris Johnson: Bollocks?,
IHNED article.
Guardian
editorial
Grammar
and vocabulary
Colloquial
pairs
If (conditional),
type
2 (present, unreal situation). He shouldn’t be surprised if I forgot.
Murphy, English Grammar in Use, If…, exercises
Kick against
the pricks, (literary use), prick (vulgar)
cloak and dagger
[origin],
apples
to oranges
2 December
Articles and clips
Students
have ‘dismaying’ inability to tell fake news from real (NPR) [clip]. J.
Bartlett & C.Miller, Truth,
lies and the internet (Demos report).
Who’s
really to blame for fake news (Truthdig), Fake
news (Guardian)
Post-truth:
a guide for the perplexed (Nature), Post-truth
(Guardian), Post-truth
and its consequences (The Nation), Malcolm Byrne, A
milestone in post-truth politics (NSA archive), The
art of the lie (Economist)
Grammar
and vocabulary
Colloquial pairs to complete
Avoiding
negatives (exercises)
wrenching,
heart-rending
and gut-wrenching
have your cake and eat
it
9 December
Articles and clips
English
for beginners (Polish ad). Martin
Creed, It’s you (Guardian)
- lyrics
Mary Beard, The
Fall of the Roman Empire… on Twitter (TLS blog A Don’s Life)
James Gleick, What
defines a meme? (Smithsonian),
Meme
warfare (Guardian), The
menace of memes (Spectator; comment from Alan
Renwick)
How
social media created an echo chamber for ideas (BigThink) [clip]
2016
in Guardian Long Reads
Grammar and vocabulary
meme, dank memes,
filter bubble [TED
talk], confirmation
bias, (media) echo
chamber
new
political glossary (Guardian)
emoji,
emoticons
and emoji, Emoji
invasion (Guardian)
détournement
by the bye, by and
by
bunkum
mansplainer
(man explaining), be a sport
ilk
dodge, dodgy
ten
etymologies
16 December
Articles and clips
Terry
Gilliam, The Christmas
Card
Patti Smith, A hard
rain’s a-gonna fall (Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize Ceremony - lyrics), Bob Dylan,
acceptance
speech, (FT,
and Guardian
on the award)
Jonathan Haidt, Two
incompatible values in American universities (Hayek lecture, Duke U.)
Grammar and vocabulary
Commonly known rhyming slang.
Language of concession
Pelmanism
“Weak
verbs” (exercises)
Multi-word
verbs, Phrasal
verbs dictionary (usingenglish.com)
brag, humblebrag