Welcome to English 2: Academic Discourse

This module’s learning objectives aim to familiarize you with the academic discourse in English.
This course gives you the opportunity to…

read research papers more efficiently.
become familiar with levels of formality and informality in different text types.
locate appropriate research material through critical database searches and learn the characteristics of good academic papers.
understand the structure of academic papers.
This course will be held on Mondays in Winterthur in room SM O1.11. Moodle is our learning platform - All necessary course information, learning resources, assessment information, weekly handouts, exam-related documents, etc. can be found here.

If you are unable to participate in class, you can and should inform yourselves here as to weekly course content and material covered and work through the material independently.