Actividades Formativas - Cómo escribir una tesis en inglés / How to write a dissertation in English (PRESENCIAL)

This 3-week course aims at providing students with the necessary linguistic skills to improve their writing style for their thesis dissertation. Therefore, the course objectives are the following:

• To reflect on the student’s process of academic writing in English, hence identiying mistakes and ways to correct them.
• To learn specific grammatical and lexical structures of English academic writing.

As far as the course contents are concerned, they are subdivided into two main parts (from general to specific):  

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING
   1. An introduction to British English vs. American English; formal vs. informal English.
   2. Writing structures: sentences, paragraphs, and sections.
   3. Sentence types and grammar.
   4. Academic writing vocabulary.
   5. Punctuation. 
2.  WRITING A THESIS DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH
   1. The structure of the your written thesis. Abstract vs. summary. The title.
   2. The introductory chapter.
   3. Materials and method: background chapters; methodology.
   4. The results chapter.
   5. The discussion chapter.
   6. The conclusion chapter.
   7. Revising a draft; proofreading.

IMPARTIDO POR: Dr. Daniel Martín González

DURACIÓN: 12 horas

DESTINATARIOS: Estudiantes de cualquier programa de doctorado de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con un nivel de inglés B2 en adelante que vayan a escribir su tesis total o parcialmente en inglés.