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Academic Writing Made Easy

- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
The MOOC “Academic Writing Made Easy” covers the following topics to help you improve your writing:
Week 1 Rhetorical Preferences: Meeting the expectations of your target group
Week 2 Genre: Differentiating between types of scholarly texts
The Writing Process: Overcoming writer's block
Week 3 Cohesion: Making your ideas flow logically
Week 4 Sentences: Writing reader-friendly sentences
Week 5 Credibility: Convincing your peers to accept and believe what you write
Week 6 Punctuation: Polishing your text
Putting it all together: Overcoming the last hurdles
Prerequisite
Upper-intermediate to advanced knowledge of English.
Instructors
Dr. Heidi Minning
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Jeremiah Hendren
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Dr. Stephen Starck
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Dr. Aparna Bhar
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Susan O’Byrne
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Rose Jacobs
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Ruth Shannon
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Elizabeth Hamzi-Schmidt
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Tina Schrier
Lecturer
Technische Universität München
Sviatoslav Tugeev
Teaching Assistant
Technische Universität München
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