COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TEACHING THESIS WRITING AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YDI 5022 TEACHING THESIS WRITING AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES II ELECTIVE 2 0 0 8

Offered By

English Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATMA FERYAL ÇUBUKÇU

Offered to

English Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with APA and MLA and lead them to write scholarly articles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To enable students to be equipped with the writing techniques on APA
2   To enable students to be equipped with MLA.
3   To let them analyse some scholarly articles
4   To lead them to write scholarly articles
5   To let them give each other feedback

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is a scholarly article
2 How is paraphrase written
3 How to write the introduction and comclusion
4 How are references written
5 How are tables prepared
6 How to edit
7 How to write a report
8 Ara Sınav
9 How to write a review
10 How to present an article
11 How is a poster prepared
12 Ethical issues and plagiarism
13 English, Jargon
14 How to summarize
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Alkin, M. (Ed.). (1992). American Educational Research Association
sixth encyclopedia of educational research (6th ed.). New York:
Macmillan.
Husen, T. and Postlethwaite, T.N. (1994). International Encyclopedia
of Education: Research and Studies (2nd Edition), Volumes 1-12.
Oxford, Elsevier Science.
Keeves, J.P. (Ed.). (1988). Educational research, methodology and
measurement: An international handbook. Oxford: Pergamon.
Walberg, H.J. and Haertel, G. (1990). International encyclopedia of
educational evaluation. Oxford: Pergamon

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussions, group-work, question-answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

leyla.harputlu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

tue 12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Preparing assignments 13 5 65
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 211

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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