Textual Skills (2 ECTS)
Code: TX00FJ52-3003
General information
- Enrollment
- 16.12.2024 - 20.01.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.01.2025 - 16.03.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 2 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Unit
- Kiinteistö- ja rakennusala
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 20
- Degree programmes
- Surveying
- Degree Programme in Construction Site Management
- Civil Engineering
- Building Services Engineering
- Degree Programme in Construction Architecture
Learning outcomes
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
Teaching methods
Itsenäinen verkko-opiskelu.
Location and time
Course Moodle, 1st Period
Learning materials and recommended literature
Teacher's material
Exam dates and retake possibilities
Written exam in EXAM, electronic exam room, from 10th to 15th Mar. Re-exams in EXAM in April and in May 2025.
Content scheduling
Asiateksti ja asiatyyli
Kirjoitetun kielen rakenteita ja kielenhuoltoa
Referoinnin perusteet
Oman tekstin suunnittelu, jäsentely ja rakentaminen
Tekstin sidosteisuus
Korkeakouluopintojen tekstilajeja
Kielioppiaineistot ja tekniikan alan sanastot
Omien vahvuuksien ja kehittämiskohteiden tunnistaminen kirjoittamisessa
Further information for students
Mandatory assignments in course Moodle. Written exam in EXAM, electronic exam room. Discussion-based assessment in Zoom or on campus.
Assessment methods and criteria
Pakollisten tehtävien suorittaminen hyväksytysti. Tentin suorittaminen hyväksytysti. Arviointikeskusteluun osallistuminen ja sen suorittaminen hyväksytysti.
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
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.