GSKKU-การสื่อสารทางวิชาการ Academic Communication

  English for Academic Communication

Objectives:

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

             1. use academic vocabulary in academic communication

             2. construct well-organized paragraphs and effective essays

             3. write effective abstracts and research papers

Contents:

             1.  An Overview of Academic Communication

                   1.1     Definition of Academic Communication

                   1.2     Features of Academic English

             2. Introducing Academic Vocabulary

                   2.1     Academic Words

                   2.2     Reporting Verbs

                   2.3     Hedging  

             3. Constructing Well-Organized Paragraphs and Effective Essays

                   3.1     A Paragraph Structure

                   3.2     An Essay Structure

                   3.3     Coherence in paragraphs and essays

             4. Writing Effective Abstracts and Research Papers

                   4.1     The Structure of an abstract

                   4.2     The Structure of a research paper

                   4.3     Common mistakes found in writing research papers

Lecturer:                         Asst. Prof. Dr. Piyaporn Punkasirikul

Target participants:         KKU lecturers, graduate students, and staff  

Teaching method:           lectures, quizzes, and a final test