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Academic Writing Course with Dr. Jaan Islam
Academic Writing Course with Dr. Jaan Islam
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🎓 Interested in improving your academic writing for qualification to graduate programs?
Do you want to increase your chances of acceptance into MA degrees, PhD programs, and fellowships?
✍️ Streamline your academic writing skills with our head consultant, Dr. Jaan Islam, a political scientist with a decade of experience in academic publishing and teaching at the world's best universities, including the University of Oxford and King's College, London.
Over the course of this 8-week live summer course, you will learn to:
- Improve your academic writing and research skills for publishing papers/thesis in your field's top journals
- Draft research proposals for admission to top graduate programs and scholarships/fellowships
This course includes
- Bonus: One 1-on-1 consultation to sketch out your academic pathway
- Two rounds of direct feedback on your best academic work
- All your questions answered by your course instructor during and outside office hours
This online course will take place on Zoom, between June 1-July 27, 2025.
Live sessions will be on Sundays, 3-5pm UK time, all classes will be recorded and made available.
COURSE SYLLABUS
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Session |
Reading / Assignment |
Topics to be Discussed in Class |
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Week 1 |
-Booth et. al. The Craft of Research -“Find a PhD” Research Proposal Platform |
Comprehensive Guide to University Applications and Proposals -Requirements and deadlines -Guaranteeing Graduate Acceptance -Finding scholarships and fellowships |
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Academic Writing-Level 1 Framing, academic expressions, writing improvement exercises |
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Week 3 |
-Swales and Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students |
Academic Writing-Level 2 Translation, academic style and tone, proofreading |
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Week 4 |
- Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say |
Academic Writing-Level 3 Academic expressions and idioms, arguments, paragraph structure |
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Week 5 |
-Oxford Style Guide -The Economist (selections) -Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style |
Writing for Success: perfect style | academic audiences |
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Week 6 |
-Booth et. al. The Craft of Research -Belcher, Writing a Journal Article in 12 Weeks |
How to Publish-Level 1: the art and process of academic research |
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Week 7 |
-Booth et. al. The Craft of Research -Belcher, Writing a Journal Article in 12 Weeks
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How to Publish-Level 2: making your work publishable; journals; peer review; career stages and goals |
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Week 8 |
-Comprehensive guides for top global universities |
Your Personal Path to University Applications |
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