Dear John,
I recently joined the EATAW list and saw your response to Sandra below. I will also be developing a research and writing course for master's students here at ETH. For several years I have been assisting with an energy policy and economics course in which we help coach students through drafts of a research paper. This new course will focus on the production of master's theses, and will probably cater to non-native English speakers, although not exclusively.
You and CEU clearly have a great deal of experience in this area. I wanted to ask if you could share a syllabus with me from one of your courses in economics. Our course here will officially be in that department, but the students will likely come from a variety of programs and disciplines in engineering, economics and other social sciences, energy, and environment.
Reading through list postings from the start of the year, I have been introduced to Swales & Feak's book and several other authoritative resources. If you or anyone else on the list has other tips for a relative newcomer, either general or targeted to economics and social science, I would be grateful.
Best,
David
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Dr. David Goldblatt
Centre for Energy Policy and Economics
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
ETH Zurich
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Dear Sandra,
At CEU we have been teaching academic writing at master's level for many years. Some 90% of our students overall have English as a second language, but our courses are designed for both native and non-native speakers ie. they focus on academic writing as a skill, not as a subset of EAP. We have had very positive feedback from NS students who are initially sceptical because their prior experience of other EAP-style courses of non-discipline related US writing courses, though we also get very good feedback from NNSs.
We use what is fundamentally a genre/WiD approach, trying to take into account the needs and specifics of the discipline (though process also plays an important role in our methodology). I attach a sample syllabus from one department (International Relations - where the NS:NNS ratio is about 60:40). I'm not sure whether a 'module' has a given length. The syllabus I attach is 15x100 minutes. Other courses we offer are for 7x, 12x or 18x 100mins, for example, according to departmental needs.
Best,
John
>>> Sandra Sinfield <[log in to unmask]> 26/10/10 14:24 >>>
Dear All,
Currently our university recruits many international and other
'non-traditional' students - it is one of our many great strengths and
virtues! I am interested in offering a Masters Module in Academic
Writing for those students who want to develop their ability to write
fluently, authorially, authoritatively and elegantly in their topic (and
in good academic English). As a great believer in re-purposing material
that is already successful rather than always starting from scratch, I
wondered if anyone out there already had a module along those lines that
they might like to share with the list - or just with me...
I am really happy to share any eventual Module that I develop with the
rest of the list.
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