2024 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
Academic Writing Practice I
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Academic Supervisor
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CAP.E611
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
[Summary of the lecture] It is important for scientists and engineers to appeal their research findings to the society by writing technical papers. In this course, students aquire a skill to write high-quality scientific papers.
[Aim of the lecture] This lecture aims to provide students guidelines on how to prepare a well-structured and comprehensive research manuscript.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to write a logically-correct scientific paper.
Keywords
scientific writing, scientific journal,
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Every lesson contains not only a lecture but also a short exercise.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Writing scientific papers | Aquire knowledges and atitude to write scientific papers. |
| Class 2 | Document types and structures | Explain doccument types and their structure. |
| Class 3 | How to write a research abstract | Aquire a skill to write appealing abstracts. |
| Class 4 | The importance of introduction chapter | Aquire a skill to write appealing backgrounds and uniquness of the research. |
| Class 5 | Experimental section | Aquire a skill for concise writing of experimental section. |
| Class 6 | Results and Discussion | Understand how to construct Results and Discussion sections logically. |
| Class 7 | Conclusions | Aquire a skill to write necessary and sufficient conclusions. |
| Class 8 | Citation and Acknowledgement | Aquire knowledges for correct citation of references and writing acknowlegements. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Unfixed
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts will be distributed.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students' knowledge and skill will be assessed from exercises (100%).
Related courses
- CAP.E612 ： Academic Writing II
Prerequisites
none