Academic Writing

Academic Writing for Bachelor Students

at the Department of Literary Studies (HSE)

The main purpose of this three-module course is to equip the second-year Bachelor Students with academic writing skills at University level. The course is tailored to the needs of Literary Studies majors and thus embraces a range of subject-specific writing genres apart from the general training in writing for ESL students. The focus is placed on practical work in developing an appropriate academic style and writing format, summarizing academic articles, building up paragraphs and completed texts, producing original academic arguments supported by appropriate textual evidences, developing a sophisticated and elegant prose style. The students are exposed to the main literature-specific types of writing and are supposed to be able to produce argumentative essays, small research papers and papers of explication, analysis and interpretation or their elements towards the end of the course. The course adopts the MLA documentation style.