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Course Coordinator: Dr Michelle Picard

Phone: 08 8313 3957/ 08 8313 0855

Email: michelle.picard@adelaide.edu.au

Campus: North Terrace

Rooms: Nexus 10, Smarte Room (level 8)

Office hours for course: Room 11:7, Nexus 10, 2:00 – 4:00 Wednesdays

1. Communicate verbally as appropriate in a variety of research contexts.

2. Communicate in writing as appropriate in a variety of research contexts.

3. Apply argument structure and appropriate academic critique in a variety of spoken and written genres.

4. Communicate in accordance with the conventions of their discipline, using appropriate grammatical 最新糖心Vlog and vocabulary.

5. Produce appropriate ethics documentation that demonstrates an awareness of ethical and social issues in the 最新糖心Vlogn research environment.

There is no textbook for this course. Rather students will be required to read selected literature and notes on key communication issues covered in the course and disciplinary texts as appropriate.

Additional course-related material is available through MyUni.

Additional course-related material is available through MyUni.

The course is built around a series of lectures/workshops covering the fundamental research communication issues. These are complemented by seminars providing practice in written and spoken communication contexts. Related assignments are designed to consolidate the learning of key principles and development of communication skills.

 1 x ½ hour lecture per week (x12) = 18 hours 
 
1 x 1 ½ hour seminar per week (x12) = 18 hours 
  
1x 4 hour reading per week (x12) =  48 hours 
 
4+x Graded editing tasks  =  12 hours 
 
1 x Discipline-specific corpus and reflection (x1) = 20 hours 
 
4 x Research documents for different audiences = 40 hours 
 
Total = 156

  
1: 5 March
Reading and note-taking for researchers  (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Diagnostic exercise and communication in cross-cultural settings including academic & disciplinary cultures
(28 February – MPhils, Online: remainder of class)

Homework for next week: Bring along a disciplinary/ topic focussed text for note-taking. 
 
2: 12 March
 Taking a critical approach to the Scholarship in the Field  (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Application of macro-reading skills to disciplinary texts and genres. Development of set of notes. Talk about abstracts (1:00 – 2:00)

Homework: Write a summary/abstract for the article. 
 
3: 19 March
 
Reviewing literature (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)
 
Voice exercise based on diagnostic. Developing tables/ mindmaps of literature in a field. (1:00 – 2:00)

Hand-in abstract, develop a mind-map or table on 5+ articles on a topic. 
 
4: 26 March 
 
Appropriate Citation and avoiding plagiarism (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Responding to Turnitin.com feedback on abstracts, learning about acceptable intertextuality (1:00 – 2:00)

Work on speaking practice reading disciplinary texts aloud and summarising their content verbally in a coherent fashion.
 
5: 2 April

Presenting a seminar in your discipline (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Effective Powerpoint design (1:00 – 2:00)

Design Powerpoint in pairs based on a disciplinary article or topic using the 最新糖心Vlog templates. 
 
6: 30 April

Pronunciation for researchers (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)
 
Present 5 slide presentation and receive feedback on pronunciation and intonation (1:00 – 2:00)
(1:00

Study Sound scripting of presentation scripts. 
 
7: 7 May

Research Proposals and other Research Genres (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Detailed exploration of research genres: popular media article, ethics proposal, review article, research article and research proposal.
(1:00 – 2:00)

Listen to public lecture and take notes, work on writing it up as a popular media article. 
 
8: 14 May

Listening in Research Contexts (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)
 
Academic lecture note-taking strategies practiced. (1:00 – 2:00)
 
Work on popular media article for hand in next week.
 
9: 21 May

Grammar for researchers (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

More detailed work on sentence structure, word form and sentence clarity. (1:00 – 2:00)

Study for test on sentence structure, word form and sentence clarity, complete practice exercises.



10: 28 May

Readability in research documents 16 October (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Write a test on sentence structure, word form and sentence clarity, exercises and input on tense, articles and collocation. (1:00 – 2:00)

Study for test on tense, articles and collocation. 
 
11: 4 June

Editing and self-editing in research documents 23 (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Test on tense, articles and collocation. Work on using a variety of strategies to enhance language learning and reporting on these in language learning log. Revision of ethics application genres (1:00 – 2:00)

Prepare for test on readability and work on ethics application. 
 
12: 11 June

Being supervised/ working with people in research environments  (11:00 – 1:00 Room 2:17)

Readability exercise/test and effective academic posters

Work on poster and ethics application task 
 
13: 18 June

Preparation for assessment, work through example questions

Editing exercise/test. Agreement and other language issues revision.

Hand in poster, ethics application and all assessment by the end of this week.

Note that attendance at seminars is compulsory. 

Small group work is part of every seminar. Each student conducts research into their disciplinary language conventions - thus the course also has a distinctive 'discovery' component.

1. Discipline-specific language tool log and reflection

Task description: Creation of a language tool log, weekly reflections and discussions on vocabulary, and other skills development and a 1000 word reflective essay on language use in their discipline 
Type of assessment: Formative & Summative) 
Dates of submission: Blogs: Week 2 onwards, Reflective essay handed in Week 13
Percentage of grade: 30%
Objectives: 1,3,4,5
 

2. Graded editing tasks

Task description: Discipline-specific editing tasks
Type of assessment: Formative & Summative)
Including tasks on tense, articles, voice, sentence structure/ word form, readability and self-editing
Dates of submission: Weeks 8-13
Percentage of grade: 20%
Objectives: 2,3,4,5
 
3. Research communication portfolio

Task description: Written/ oral tasks for differe different research contexts
 E.g. abstract, media article, poster, powerpoint, seminar notes, ethics document.
 Dates of submission: Weeks 3-13 (Completed in week 12)
Percentage of grade: 50%
Objectives: 1,2,3,4,5