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    Overview

    The theoretical and practical tools needed by graduate research students to achieve effective communication of their academic ideas in both print and other media.

    Designed for postgraduate students, this paper focuses on practical approaches to conveying your point using research drawn from your chosen discipline. Multidisiciplinary by nature, this paper will broaden your understanding of different approaches while deepening your appreciation of why scholars in your subject adopt particular approaches and techniques.

    About this paper

    Paper title Writing and Revision for Graduate Research
    Subject Humanities
    EFTS 0.25
    Points 30 points
    Teaching period Semester 2 (On campus)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $2,223.25
    International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
    Limited to
    MA
    Eligibility
    For students enrolled in the coursework option for the MA; others may enrol by permission of the paper co-ordinator.
    Contact

    shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz

    Teaching staff

    Associate Professor Shef Rogers

    Teaching Arrangements
    • Weekly bad sentence blog (10%)
    • Class discussion prompt document (10%)
    • Revision exercise (20%)
    • 7–8 min. oral presentation (20%)
    • 2500-word formal prose essay (30%)
    • Publication venue analysis (10%)
    Textbooks

    Set texts:

    • Yellowlees Douglas, The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer (Cambridge, 2015)

    Recommended texts:

    • Wayne C. Booth et al., The Craft of Research, 4th ed (Chicago, 2016)

    Optional texts:

    • Joseph Bizup and Joseph M.Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Pearson, 2014; widely available secondhand)
    • Eric Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2014)
    Graduate Attributes Emphasised
    Lifelong Learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical Thinking, Cultural Understanding, Ethics, Teamwork, Self-Motivation.
    View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
    Learning Outcomes

    Students who successfully complete this paper will be able to

    • Understand the concepts of: audience, genre, discourse, mode, intertextuality, metadiscourse, grammar, voice, and style
    • Communicate effectively in a variety of modes, including oral, print (formal academic), digital, graphical
    • Recognise and analyse examples of effective writing in their own and other discourse communities
    • Give and receive effective peer feedback on writing
    • Write for a variety of audiences
    • Present orally to both academic and general audiences
    • Self-edit for coherence and cohesion
    • Give and receive scholarly criticism appropriately
    • Recognise implicit aims and explicitly articulate and address them

    Timetable

    Semester 2

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught On Campus
    Learning management system
    Blackboard

    Lecture

    Stream Days Times Weeks
    Attend
    A1 Tuesday 15:00-16:50 29-35, 37-42
    Thursday 15:00-16:50 29-35, 37-42
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