UCT GSB - Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space
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Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space at Coursera Overview
Duration | 19 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space at Coursera Highlights
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 19 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space at Coursera Course details
- Throughout the world, writing serves to express, record and even create meaningful moments. In academic spaces, writing becomes the bridge between ourselves and the world of ideas. In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer. You will have an opportunity to engage with texts written by academics, and to see how some of the ideas in these texts are used by students in constructing an academic essay. We address some of the challenges these students face with respect to academic writing and offer you the opportunity to practice and to develop your own writing style. For this course, we centre our lessons around a specific topic - the concept of identity, since it forms such an important feature of how we locate ourselves in an ever-changing global world. In other words, this course teaches academic writing skills through getting you to write and reflect on your understanding of identity. So if you are thinking about studying at a tertiary institution, or if you just want to brush up on your academic essay writing skills, this course is for you!
Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space at Coursera Curriculum
Starting to write: Understanding definitions of identity
Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space
Thinking about your essay
Meet our student writers
Through the looking glass: Who am I?
Woodward on identity: I, me and the world
Woodward on identity: Roots and routes
How do definitions work?
Definitions in context
Drafting your definition
Giving feedback on definitions
How this course works
Meet your instructors
Week 1: What to expect
Summary of Woodward's interview
Week 1 recommended readings
Is this course right for you?
Woodward Practice Quiz
Week 1 Graded Quiz
Developing an argument: shifting identities
Recap on identity
Identity and mobility through the ages
Nelson Mandela: Terrorist or freedom fighter?
Reading strategies
Applying reading strategies: Sichone?s chapter
Applying reading strategies: Blommaert?s chapter
Understanding the course essay
Drafting your introduction
Giving feedback on introductions
Relationship between the introduction and conclusion
Week 2: What to expect
Required reading - Xenophobia by Owen Sichone
Required reading - Discourse by Blommaert
Sichone and Blommaert practice quiz
Week 2 practice quiz
Critique an introduction
Supporting the argument: situating identity within culture
Recap on identity and mobility
Case study of an international student
Pool of abundance: Understanding culture
Round table discussion on culture
Writing paragraphs
Quotes and paraphrasing
In-text referencing
Coherence and cohesion
Student writers drafting their paragraphs
Giving feedback on Ada?s paragraph
Giving feedback on Ziggy?s paragraph
Giving feedback on Joey's paragraphs
Week 3: What to expect
Required reading: Culture: A contemporary definition by Thornton
Cohesive devices - Linking words
Thornton Quiz
Week 3 practice quiz
Paragraph development quiz
Starting to finish: writing the first draft
Looking back on the course
Round table discussion: Reflection on the readings
The essay building blocks
Referencing and managing sources
Giving feedback on Ziggy's draft
Giving feedback on Joey's draft
Giving feedback on Ada's draft
Looking forward
Week 4: What to expect
Week 4 practice quiz
Critique an essay
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