Ethics and practice of scholarly work WT-DTE-WJEP
The course is devoted to acquainting the students with good practices in the scholarly work of a theologian. During the course, the students should learn how to write a good academic text in English. In particular, they should learn how to choose a good topic of a scholarly work, how to handle the sources, how to find and use scholarly literature on the subject, how to make references to it, and how to use academic English style in writing.
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
During the course, the students should learn how to write a good academic text in English. In particular, they should learn how to choose a good topic of a scholarly work, how to handle the sources, how to find and use scholarly literature on the subject, how to make references to it, and how to use academic English style in writing.
Assessment criteria
1. continuous evaluation during the classes
2. a written work
The final grade is dependent on meeting the criteria of evaluation: criterion 1: 40%, criterion 2: 60%. The written work should have the features of a scholarly work related to theology, contain min. 4000 characters (with spaces), and make use of min. 5 bibliographical items with footnotes to them and a final bibliography.
Bibliography
1. L. Alonso Schökel and J. M. Bravo, A Manual of Hermeneutics, trans. L. M. Rosa (Biblical Seminar 54; Sheffield Academic: Sheffield 1998).
2. R. Mazza, ‘Dating Early Christian Papyri: Old and New Methods – Introduction’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42.1 (2019) 46–57.
3. R. Carter and M. McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English (Cambridge University: Cambridge 2010).
4. C. Soanes and A. Stevenson (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edn., Oxford University: Oxford 2006).
5. Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English (Oxford University: Oxford 2014).
6. New Oxford Style Manual (3rd edn., Oxford University: Oxford 2016).
7. The Chicago Manual of Style (17edn., University of Chicago: Chicago 2017).
8. The SBL Handbook of Style (2nd edn., SBL: Atlanta, GA 2014).
9. Other electronic resources of the library of UKSW: https://pulpit.uksw.edu.pl/
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