The course will cover the main aspects of academic writing, in particular focusing on the use of the linguistic resources for developing a paper or a project. Drawing on good and bad examples of articles in the field of linguistics, the argumentative and linguistic structure of an academic text will be analyzed, bringing to light how contents need to be structured to achieve clarity and academic rigor. More precisely the following topics will be addressed concerning the writing dimension:

a)     General structure of an academic article;

b)    Internal structure of sections and intersection relations;

c)     Academic citations and ways of referring to others’ works;

d)    Criteria of evaluation and their application on concrete examples;

e)     Paragraph structure;

f)     Use of some linguistic structures in academic writing;

g)    Reference conventions.

h)    Structuring and delivering an oral presentation.

In addition to the academic writing dimension, methodological sessions will be devoted to some topics within the students’ interests. The following topics will be considered:

·       Ethical guidelines in field work

·       Systematic literature review

·       Principles of content analysis

·       Introduction to mixed methods

• Identifying and applying the persuasive structure of an academic article.

• Learning and applying the global and detailed (paragraph) structure of an academic article.

• Familiarizing with the criteria of peer review and how they may affect the quality of an article and its adaptability for publication.

• Developing an academic presentation and training presentation abilities

• Identifying  and  understanding  the  scope  and  structure  of  different  types  of  articles ranging from empirical to theoretical articles (including review articles).

• Learning the basics of academic project writing.