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230172 UE Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences (2023W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 17 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Saturday 14.10. 09:30 - 16:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Saturday 21.10. 09:30 - 16:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Saturday 04.11. 09:30 - 16:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
  • Saturday 18.11. 09:30 - 16:30 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the basic skills to structure and organize a scientific manuscript (e.g., master thesis, journal article, etc.).
At the beginning of the course the students are requested to choose a research question/topic they would like to read and write about for the rest of the course. It is compulsory to come to the first class with a research topic in mind.
The main topics addressed during the course will be: critical reading, paraphrasing, structural features of English research papers, tips to write an abstract, literature review section of a scientific manuscript. The course is strongly interactive, and active participation of students is expected.

The language of the course is English.

Assessment and permitted materials

The final grade is based on all the following tasks:
- Active participation (20%)
- Presentation of about 20 minutes on a research topic of interest (30%)
- Writing assignment (50%)

Important Grading Information:
The provision of all partial tasks is a prerequisite for a positive assessment, if not explicitly noted otherwise.
All students who received a place in the course are assessed if they have not deregistered from the course in due time or if they have not credibly shown an important reason for their failure to deregister after the cause for this reason does no longer apply
Students who credibly show an important reason (e.g. a longer illness) for the withdrawal from a course with continuous assessment are not assessed.
Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer. The request for deregistration must be submitted immediately.

If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as "not assessed" and recorded accordingly.
You can find these and other provisions in the study law: https://satzung.univie.ac.at/studienrecht/.

The plagiarism-detection service (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used in course of the grading.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To pass the course, students have to perform in all tasks (with a score of 4 at least), otherwise the course is considered failed. Attendance at the sessions is expected, if a student misses more than one session, the course is considered failed.

Examination topics

Reading list

Recommended: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017
Additional material will be given during the course.

Association in the course directory

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