PhD:AcademicResearchAndWritingCulture

Academic Research and Writing Culture

• Course name: Academic Research and Writing Culture
• Course number: FTD.V.02

Course Characteristics

• Instructors: Oksana Zhirosh, Ruslan Saduov
• Instructors’ emails: o.zhirosh@innopolis.ru, ru.saduov@innopolis.ru

Key concepts of the class

• Structures in academic writing: IMRaD and IMRaD-inspired structures, the logic of using the English language tenses in IMRaD;
• Paragraph unity: the cohesion and coherence of paragraphs;
• Research papers chapters - their communication purposes, structures, language.
• Referencing styles, APA and IEEE guidelines: primary sources and highlights.
• Avoiding Plagiarism: referencing, paraphrasing, and summarizing, quotations
• Numerical data representations;
• Peer review process;
• Publication strategy.

What is the purpose of this course?

This course aims to give the students theoretical knowledge and practical skills in academic writing. Specifically, students will learn to produce an academic paper compliant with international standards.

- What should a student remember at the end of the course?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to remember the conventions of academic writing:

• IMRaD structure; chapters content
• paragraph unity rules
• IEEE and APA referencing and style requirements
• techniques of avoiding plagiarism
• rules related to the representation of numerical data
• peer-reviewing basics
• publication strategy guidelines

- What should a student be able to understand at the end of the course?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to understand the conventions of academic writing:

• How IMRaD motivates different paper structures.
• How one can achieve coherence and cohesion of the paragraph.
• How one can use IEEE and APA guidelines for writing academic papers.
• How to avoid Plagiarism.
• How to represent numerical data in a paper.
• How to write peer-review and how to respond to it.
• How to plan publication activity.

- What should a student be able to apply at the end of the course?

By the end of the course, the students should be able:

• to use the IMRaD or IMRaD-motivated structures for an academic paper;
• to write coherent and cohesive paragraphs;
• to use IEEE and APA referencing and style requirements in their papers.
• to use the techniques of avoiding Plagiarism;
• to represent numerical data in papers;
• to perform peer review;
• to develop their publication strategy.

Course evaluation

Course grade breakdown

		Proposed points
Paper	50
Peer Review	30
Practice Quizzes	20

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Grades range

Course grading range

		Proposed range
A. Excellent	90-100
B. Good	75-89
C. Satisfactory	60-74
D. Poor	0-59

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Resources and reference material

• Zorich, V. A. “Mathematical Analysis I, Translator: Cooke R.” (2004)

Course Sections

The main sections of the course and approximate hour distribution between them is as follows:

Course Sections

Section	Section Title	Teaching Hours
1	Sequences and Limits	28
2	Differentiation	24
3	Integration and Series	28

Section 1

Topics covered in this section:

• Antiderivative. Indefinite integral

What forms of evaluation were used to test students’ performance in this section?

|a|c| & Yes/No
Development of individual parts of software product code & 1
Homework and group projects & 1
Midterm evaluation & 1
Testing (written or computer based) & 1
Reports & 0
Essays & 0
Oral polls & 0
Discussions & 1