This doctoral level course aims to develop students’ knowledge and skills regarding academic scholarship and research writing within the social sciences. The course includes the discussion of ways in which culture informs academic writing, and the underlying principles of logic, argumentation and reasoning in academic writing practices. Discipline-specific scholarly conventions and technical requirements for quantitative and qualitative research reporting are discussed and applied in preparation for dissertation writing and the writing of research papers for publication in refereed English journals. Students will also engage with relevant primary and secondary source readings, and conduct critical analysis of exemplary texts.

CILO-1: Identify the relationship between the concepts of academic scholarship and academic writing, and discuss the principles of academic analysis and writing with a particular focus on critical thinking and academic argument for different genres and disciplinary requirements. CILO-2: Identify the requirements for citation and referencing in Anglophone academic culture, and discuss the European/Anglophone tradition of critique and the role of critical thinking in the modern Anglophone academy. CILO-3: Identify forms of editing and proofreading and apply this to their own work and that of others. CILO-4: Write accurate in-text citations and reference lists in an appropriate referencing system, and incorporate techniques of critical thinking and writing into their own writing and oral presentation.