【5月22日】
Academic Writing in English
主讲人：Kwinten Van De Walle
时间：5月22日（周四）13:00-14:30
地点：松江校区五教楼5361
主讲人简介
Kwinten Van De Walle is a lecturer at the School of English Studies. He is a former junior post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and was a research fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research predominantly focuses on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, illustration, and print culture. His current research focuses on illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith’s literary works (1766-1845).
讲座简介
A proficiency in academic writing is one of the most important skills which university students (especially those in the Humanities) are required to develop in the course of their degree programmes. It is not sufficient to accumulate relevant knowledge in the field and to develop the necessary reading and analytical skills; students also have to be able to translate their own arguments, interpretations, and research findings into well-structured and convincing texts, be they short essays or longer dissertations. Conceptualising academic writing as a form of communication, this lecture will briefly introduce the two main structures in academic writing (IMRaD and IBC), before providing students with some basic guidelines to write focused and cohesive texts. The goal is to provide students with some additional tools to plan, organize, and tackle their academic writing.
