Textual Skills (2 cr)
Code: TX00FJ52-3001
General information
- Enrollment
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12.09.2023 - 30.09.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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25.09.2023 - 19.11.2023
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 2 cr
- Local portion
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Unit
- (2019-2024) School of Real Estate and Construction
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Civil Engineering
- Degree Programme in Construction Site Management
- Degree Programme in Construction Architecture
- Surveying
- Building Services Engineering
Implementation has 7 reservations. Total duration of reservations is 10 h 30 min.
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Mon 25.09.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 02.10.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 09.10.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 23.10.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 30.10.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 06.11.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Mon 13.11.2023 time 08:30 - 10:00 (1 h 30 min) |
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Objective
On completion of the course, the student is familiar with the requirements and key features of factual texts. The student is able to write texts based on other texts in their field of study. The student is able to follow the main conventions of written language in their writing. The student is able to use model texts, various grammar resources and technical glossaries in their writing. The student understands the types of textual skills required in higher education studies, and they are able to evaluate their own strengths and areas of improvements in writing factual texts.
Content
- factual texts and formal writing style
- structures of written language and grammatical correctness
- basics of summarizing
- planning, structuring and constructing a text
- coherence of a text
- text genres in higher education
- grammar resources and glossaries of technical terms
- evaluating one’s skills in writing
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
The course is assessed on a scale pass/fail. In order for the student to pass the course, their writing must develop sufficiently in several textual aspects.