Textual Skills (2 ECTS)
Code: TX00FJ52-3004
General information
- Enrollment
- 15.05.2025 - 30.05.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 12.05.2025 - 30.09.2025
- Implementation is running.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 2 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Unit
- Kiinteistö- ja rakennusala
- 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
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
Location and time
Course Moodle, Summer 2025 (May-September)
Materials
Teacher's material in Moodle.
Teaching methods
Online tasks
Discussion-based assessment
Exam schedules
Written exam in EXAM, electronic exam room, weeks 36-37 / 2025.
Content scheduling
Suomeksi
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
Mandatory assignments in course Moodle. Written exam in EXAM, electronic exam room. Discussion-based assessment in Zoom or on campus.
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.