LNG250 Academic Writing
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Angela Schwarm
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Limits of class size:50
Course frequency:Yearly
Nominal workload:125 hours
Teaching and exam period:Autumn parallel
About this course
The course covers the principles of academic writing for the natural sciences. The students will learn to structure an academic text from a chosen problem. Organizing the text, the structure of paragraphs, language, and arguments will be emphasized, in addition to citing of scientific papers. Individual responses to the student's writing skills will be prioritized, either by lecturers, writing tutors, or peer assessment.
Learning outcome
Knowledge
After attending the course, the students are expected to:
- Know the principles for a strong, academic text
- Understand how to argue reasonably for and against a problem
- Know how to search scientific literature and how to use this in their own text
Skills
After attending the course, the students are expected to:
- Be able to construct an outline for their own text
- Be able to build a narrative, write good paragraphs, and get a logical flow in the text
- Use references properly in their own text
General competence
After attending the course, the students are expected to:
- Be able to express themselves in a scientific way
- Be able to give and receive constructive critics of text, their own or others
- Understand how planning and structure form the basis for a good text
- Lectures, discussion groups, and individual writing exercises with three compulsory submissions on which feedback is given, either as peer assessment or from writing tutors. In addition, a final course assignment is submitted which provides the basis for a final pass/fail assessment.
- The Writing Centre offers individual guidance.
- Assessment of subject assignment: Passed / Failed. Students must have approved all mandatory modules in order to be assessed as a pass.
Assignment Grading: Passed / Not Passed - An external examiner evaluates the final subject assignment.
- Compulsory attendance at 80% of the structured teaching time. Compulsory submission at the end of each of the three course modules: 1) problem, 2) outline and 3) writing draft, which must be approved before submission of the final course assignment. If modules 1-3 are not approved by the first submission deadline, one additional submission with a three-day deadline is permitted.
- The course is given in Norwegian but involves reading of scientific papers in English.
- A total of 12 double hours with structured teaching.
- Students at BIOVIT.
- LNG240
- Minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway