Engelska Studiehandboken kurser

Dept. of Communication and Languages

KSS020 Academic and Business Writing 7.5 ECTS credits

DENNA SIDA FINNS OCKSÅ PÅ SVENSKA

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LANGUAGE: English

EXAMINER
M P Hughes Utl lekt

PREREQUISITES
General eligibility with at least grade 3 from a 3 year upper secondary school course programme.

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to improve the general English and the language skills of the students, as well as to strengthen and develop the students' ability to express themselves in a scientific manner, especially when writing financial texts, reports and summaries.

CONTENTS
The course consists of essay writing, business correspondence, translations and summaries of economic and scientific texts. Abstracts of economic reports and subject related exercises. Aspects of presentation techniques will be discussed when doing oral presentations and project reports.

TEACHING
Lectures, classes and compulsory exercises.

EXAMINATION
Written examination and compulsory assignments.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass, Passed with

ITEMS/CREDITS


Assignments                                                 	4.5ECTS
Written exam                                                	3.0ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. Collins ELT, 1987. Svensk-engelska ordboken. Norstedts, 1989. MacQueen, D., Using Numbers in English, 1991. Studentlitteratur. Articles from newspapaers and journals. Copied material.

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