5 Credits Writing and Oral skills

1 Credit research skills

6 December first test, 8 AM – 10:30 am in PC-rooms

Compulsory attendance

Maximum of 3 absences

LIMO – Website to find artciles and books in the library at the school

Modules:

academic sources

a good search strategy

Finding sources

Managing information

Using sources

Use Boolean opeartors in the search engine on LIMO in order to have more complexity in query.

We mainly use Chicago referencing style apparently.

Zotero, some type of source saver tool

  • Easy to change referencing system in.

PC rooms in the VHI for self-study regarding course

(About 4 sessions in these)

Deadline 18:th of October (Library information ”quest”)

Continuous Evaluation

You need to always come prepared, ie. Having done assignments before coming to class.

Important to participate in the groups.

Writing Assignments:
Paraphrasing a source

Text analysis

Critical Commentary Essay

Research paper

  • No plagiarism!!!

  • Don’t use AI

Five minute videoclip presentation defending a viewpoint

and then 2 in-class presentation

All deadlines at 16:00 the day before

Most classes for the writing will be around Agora

At least the teacher will give very constant feedback on stuff :333

No collaboration allowed (wtf??)

10% attendance and partiticipation

20% Presentations

70% Written assignments

/20 marks

Writing assignments are weighted based on expected learning at time of assignment

5% - 10% - 25%- 30%

Oral assignments

4% - 8% - 8%

Peer feedback is important for evalutation

All written assignments in time or NA

Give all presentation or NA

Fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

You have to get over 9.9 on every component to pass FUCKCKKCKCK

You can question a grade with the normal school stuff outside of our faculty

If we fail this course we fail philosophy lol cause we fail the milestone without this

  • ie. They do not deliberate this course

Presentations can only be retaken if you made it but didn’t pass it.

If you miss a class you will have to make a make-up assignment by yourself within two weeks of the absence

You can attend the other groups’ session sometimes if you want to, just ask the teacher.

Always contact ombudsperson (who even is that?)

Same for changing the times of certain assignments or tests, but there is an EXAM ombudsperson.

Being disabled must suck lol

Preparation of computers and laptops

Zotero plugins have to be installed each time you use it.

Cf. Course text: 4. Required software.