What are the courses? | Who can enrol? | How much does a course cost? | When are the courses held?
What are the courses?
There are different types of course, depending on the Doctoral School:
IECS, DICAM, DII, PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, CIBIO, AES, INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION and COGNITIVE SCIENCE DOCTORAL SCHOOLS
Academic Writing for the Sciences and Engineering: 24 hours
The course furthers students’ ability to draft a part of an academic paper and then improve it through a variety of tools, applying their knowledge of textual, grammatical, and lexical features of written academic English. An active approach is used, with participants drafting, discussing, and revising short texts related to their academic work. Through pair and group discussion and teacher explanation, students increase their awareness of the effect of different language choices.
Presentations for the Sciences and Engineering: 16 hours
The purpose of this course is to improve students’ ability to give presentations and to be clear, especially as regards pronunciation. During the course students practise giving presentations and asking and answering questions. Students receive feedback regarding the language used in their presentation and about how the information is presented.
Academic Writing II for the Sciences and Engineering: 24 hours
The purpose of this course is to revise and extend the various aspects of language and writing introduced during the Technical English and the Academic Writing for the Sciences and Engineering courses, and in this context to improve clarity of expression in the papers that course participants are writing for the Qualifying exam at DISI.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Academic Writing for International studies: 24 hours
The course for first years aims at enabling students to understand the reader expectation approach to academic writing. By understanding how readers process text, students can produce prose that is clear and readily understandable and minimize potential misinterpretation.
Proposal Writing for International studies: 24 hours
The aim of the course is to help students understand how to plan and start writing their PhD proposal and practice their presentation before the Graduate Student Conference.
Dissertation Writing for International studies: 12 hours
The aim of the course is to help students organize their research coherently at whole text level.
Dissertation Writing for International studies II: 24 hours
The aim of the course is to help students refine their empirical chapters through the peer review.
SOCIAL SCIENCES DOCTORAL SCHOOL
Academic Writing for the Social Sciences (Doctoral programmes: Sociology and Social Research, Economics and Management, SUSTEEMS) 36 hours
The course aims to improve students’ ability to write clearly and cohesively, with appropriate use of an academic style and a high level of linguistic accuracy. Specific content may vary depending on participants’ needs, but is divided into four main areas.
1. Genre analysis of some brief academic texts. Subsequently, students will produce their own brief texts which are revised in class with the assistance of their peers and the teacher.
2. Exercises to improve students’ ability in the following writing skills: cohesion, concision, syntax, paraphrasing, hedging.
3. Exercises and analyses of model texts to increase students’ knowledge of and ability to effectively use academic style and vocabulary. Introduction to useful online tools for students’ own linguistic research.
4. Exercises to improve linguistic accuracy based on students’ typical language mistakes.
Who can enrol?
Academic Writing for the Sciences and Engineering, Presentations for the Sciences and Engineering e Academic Writing II for the Sciences and Engineering courses are aimed at University PhD students of Mesiano and Povo.
Academic Writing for International Studies, Proposal Writing for International Studies e Dissertation Writing for International Studies courses are aimed at University Phd students of International Studies.
Academic Writing for the Social Sciences course is aimed at first year doctoral students in the following programmes: Sociology and Social Research, Economics and Management and SUSTEEMS.
How much does a course cost?
The courses are free of charge.
When are the courses held?
Academic Writing for the Sciences and Engineering, Presentations for the Sciences and Engineering e Academic Writing II for the Sciences and Engineering courses: during the year several cycles of courses are organised.
Academic Writing for International Studies courses: in the first semester of the first year.
Proposal Writing for International Studies courses : in the second semester of the first year.
Dissertation Writing for International Studies course I: in the first semester of the second year.
Dissertation Writing for International Studies course II: in the second semester of the third year.
Academic Writing for the Social Sciences course: once a year between January and April.
Students will be informed of the course start dates, timetables and enrolment dates by the secretary’s offices of their PhD schools.