Преподавател(и):

ас. Георги Цонев  

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

Students who successfully pass the course are aware of the tools needed to independently compose a MA thesis.

Students who successfully pass the course are capable of editing their own writing and provide basic feedback and proofreading for other's writings
Предварителни изисквания:
Students are required to have basic academic writing skills

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Практика, практикум

Език, на който се води курса:
Български

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Genres of academic writing
2. MA thesis as an academic writing genre
3. The process of argumentation
4. Thesis statement, anthesis, hypothesis
5. Arguments – building an argument, types of arguments, counterarguments
6. Fallacies
7. Text construction 1 – introductions, conclusions, types of defense of an argument
8. Text construction 2 – objects, topics, focus, goals, methodologies overview, literary review writing
9. Text construction 3 – text coherence and text cohesion
10. Layout, Style and Writing Standards
11. Referencing and bibliography
12. Working with sources. NBU Library basics
13. MS Office as a helpful tool
14. Using dictionaries and reference sourses
15. The process of defending your Master thesis

Литература по темите:

Harvey, Michael, 1960/2003, The nuts and bolts of college writing, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-573-4

Frans H. van Eemeren and Henriette Greebe 2004, A Systematic Theory of Argumentation. The pragma-dialectical approachisbn-13 978-0-521-53772-8

Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago Style for students and researchers / Kate L. Turabian ; revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press editorial staff. Eighth edition.

John Morley. The Academic Phrasebank: An Academic Writing Resource for Students and Researchers. The University of Manchester I3 Limited; 5 edition