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Academic Literacy
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - MODULE I: THE READING–RESEARCH–WRITING CONTINUUM
This module will help you acquire critical reading skills so that you will develop as a self-critical writer. The module covers issues related to reading discipline-specific literature, which is indispensable from developing professional expertise in writing a... - Week 2 - MODULE II : DEVELOPING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
This module covers issues related to building academic vocabulary. The module clarifies word-formation processes, i.e., affixation, conversion, and compounding. The focus is on strategic language re-use and ways of dealing with new words. The module provides s... - Week 3 - MODULE III : FUNDAMENTALS OF ACADEMIC GRAMMAR
This module covers issues related to the pragmatics of academic English. The module presents an overview of the English verb system, including most frequent tenses, three aspects, and two voices. The module highlights the use of correct punctuality, which is o... - Week 4 - MODULE IV : ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
The final module looks beyond the sentence to the ways that grammar structures paragraphs and longer texts. The module covers issues related to the textuality ofacademic texts, i.e. cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situational...
Prerequisite
None
Instructors
Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Editor
The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), or MFTI, is a Russian university located in Dolgoproudny and Moscow.
The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology was founded in February 1946 by the Russian Academy of Sciences at the urging of physicist Piotr Kapitsa: the aim was to create an elite scientific university. It was here that the Phystech pedagogy was instituted, enabling hand-picked students to put together their own study and research programme under the guidance of a tutor.
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