COMP80142 Academic Writing and Impact Studies

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Course description

Follow this link for the course unit description and syllabus.

Lecturers

Locations and times

Location: 2.19.

Please see below for the session schedule and key dates as well as the group assignment.

Coursework

You will all

Your first task

Your first task will be to submit a draft of your written piece. The deadline is

We 10 April 2013
We advise that you decide quickly what type of paper you wish to write and start writing. Do discuss this with your supervisor.

The written piece

The short paper you have to write should be one of the following:

The paper should be 5 pages long without references. It should include

Here are some suggestions of what to include:

Assessment

100% coursework, 0% exam

Session schedule and key dates 2012-2013

Session schedule and key dates 2012-2013
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Mo 11 Mar  Welcome: Introduction and Overview (RS)

We 13 Mar  Paper mechanics: genre, venue, purpose, audience
                            prose style, organisation (BP)  

Mo 18 Mar  Process of writing, organisation, initial impact (RS)

We 20 Mar  Writing a review (BP)

*** Easter break ***

We 10 Apr  No class - Easter break

   Draft due by everyone to Blackboard
   Paper due X1 and X2
   Blackboard reviewing and discussion 10-16 Apr

Mo 15 Apr  Understanding and presenting impact (BP)

We 17 Apr  Review session 1

   Reviewed  X1 and X2
   Chair     X2 and X3
   Paper due X3 and X4
   Blackboard reviewing and discussion 17-23 Apr

Mo 22 Apr  Ethical aspects, literature review, referencing, crediting, malpractice (BP)

We 24 Apr  Review session 2

   Reviewed  X3 and X4
   Chair     X4 and X5
   Paper due X5 and X6
   Blackboard reviewing and discussion 25-30 Apr

Mo 29 Apr  Revising your paper (RS)

We  1 May  Review session 3

   Reviewed  X5 and X6
   Chair     X6 and X1

Mo  6 May  No class - Bank holiday

We  8 May  Wrap up

We 22 May  No class

   Revised version & responses to reviews due by everyone to Blackboard
   Blackboard reviewing 22 May-5 Jun

We  5 Jun  No class

   Reviews of revised papers due by everyone to Blackboard
   Blackboard discussion 22 May-19 Jun

We 19 Jun  No class - End of discussions and the course

Group assignment

The groups have been assigned as follows.
Name                          Grp

Kristian Garza Gutierrez      A1
Steven Miller                 A2
Dhahi Al Shekali              A3
Yaman Cakmakci                A4
Andrew Webb                   A5
Ayoade Adeniyi                A6
Patrick Koopman               B1
Jon Parkinson                 B2
Nikolaos Nikolaou             B3
Cosmin Gorgovan               B4
Ahmed Al-Riyami               B5
Ali Al-Miman                  B6
Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani      C1
Andrew Mundy                  C2
Francis Southern              C3
Sukru Eraslan                 C4
Ubai Sandouk                  C5
Ungku Ungku Abu Bakar         C6
Jared Leo                     D1
Bernard d'Antras              D2
Oscar Florez                  D3
Reyadh Alluhaibi              D4
Mihai Stetco                  D5
Junyi Han                     D6
Andrew Leeming                E1
Yegor Guskov                  E2
Fatima Isiaka                 E3
Adel Binbusayyis              E4
Feifei Hang                   E5
Ekkachai Nasompong            E6
Simone Di Cola                F1
Marc Wrigley                  F2
Joseph Razavi                 F3
Qian Ma                       F4
Guangda Zhang                 F5
Salman Altammaz               F6
Andrew Chambers               G1
Georgios Kourtis              G2
Dimah Alahmadi                G3
Sahel Shariati Samani         G4
Maria Copeland                G5
Mate Toth                     G6
Jonathan Heathcote            H1
Fatin Kamaruzaman             H2
Mireya Parades Lopez          H3
August Johansson              H4
Robert Rozanski               H5
Mohammed Sharif               H6

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