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SAM-3014: Seminar on Writing Processes and Project Work Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Type of course
Theoretical subject. | Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level. | Language of instruction
North Sami | Examination semester
Spring | Objectives
Through the writing seminar, the student will acquire a basis for completing the main project. The students will learn strategies which will aid them in writing introductory academic texts. They will learn to plan and complete a writing process, about academic texts, and about structure and strategies for focusing. The project seminar will teach the students to use writing as a craft in a specific research process. | Contents
This seminar teaches writing strategies for academic texts. The seminar will aid the students in their work on their master''s thesis. Teaching will include the following topics: Research, introductory strategies in the writing process, characteristics of academic texts, the use of Sami in academic texts, language tending, the analytic and synthetic structure of academic texts, focusing, the formal structure of research. The project seminar will be an expansion of the writing seminar, where the students get to use their skills from the writing seminar in a specific research project.
The students must have experience in writing academic texts in Sami. | Form of teaching
The writing seminar consists of introductory lectures about the different parts of the writing process, as well as of exercises in groups. The students choose a project, which may have the topic of their master''s thesis as a starting point, and write an academic article of 8-10 pages. The article is to be presented at the project seminar, where the student receives feedback from the teacher and from the other students.
| Exam and assessment
Assessment method:
The examination consists of a paper of 8-10 pages (2000 characters per page) to be written in Sami.
Performance in the course will be assessed with pass/ fail.
Exam language(s): Sami | Contact person/lecturer
Student Advisor Geir Håvard Hanssen, tel.: 776 45649, e-mail: geir.hanssen@hum.uit.no | Recommended reading/syllabus
Available on request. |
Teaching spring 2006
Første forelesning: Onsdag 25. januar kl 1215, rom C 1004 | | Forelesning | Foreleser Kjell Kemi
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