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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.

Course objectives based on Bloom’s taxonomy

- 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
Labs/seminar classes	20
Interim performance assessment	30
Exams	50

If necessary, please indicate freely your course’s features in terms of students’ performance assessment.

Grades range

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

If necessary, please indicate freely your course’s grading features.

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

Section title:

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

Typical questions for ongoing performance evaluation within this section

Typical questions for seminar classes (labs) within this section

Test questions for final assessment in this section

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 == 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;
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 * Peer review process;
 * Publication strategy.
-=== Key concepts of the class ===
 === 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.
-This calculus course will provide an opportunity for participants to:
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 === - What should a student remember at the end of the course? ===
-By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...
+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 ...
+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 ...
+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.

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