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This page | Whole domain | Course facts | Idea | Goals | What's academic writing about? | What's not academic writing? | What's hypertext? Whole domain | This page Academic Writing and Hypertext Types of academic texts Referring Quoting Literature references Article structure Sequential outlining Hierarchical outlining Writing process and environment Academic writing guides

Academic Writing and Hypertext MII7130 Academic Writing and Hypertext |Course facts • Code and name: MII7130 Academic Writing and Hypertext Teacher: Mauri Kaipainen, Dr., prof. • Duration: 3.9. (Opening), 02.10- 04.12.2007 (11 x 2x 45 min sessions) • Schedule: Wednesdays 10:15 - 11:45 • CP: 4 • ECTS: 5 • Room: P-321 • Assessment: Assignments on each session Belongs to: Compulsory part of General subjects in the IMKE curriculum. Page top | Wiki |Idea • Additional value to academic writing from hypertextual thinking • Academic writing as a social practice and a hypertext medium Page top | Wiki A lot has changed from these times http://www.zimmers.net |Goals To facilitate achieving: • Skills to produce publishable academic text, such as proposals, reports, articles and conference papers, in particular electronic and web-based forms • Familiarity and habits of collaborative writing • Knowledge of academic conventions and requirements • Ethics and techniques of referencing, citing and crediting • Skills to apply hypertext in new ways, including academic text, potentially in the MA thesis Page top | Wiki |What's academic writing about? • Sharing knowledge and language within a community = academia • Building on an existing culture (comparable with open source) • Playing with the community's rules: Crediting, referring • Mastering convincing argumentation: Being explicit, coherent and clear • Systematic narrative • Objectiveness • Systematic referencing Page top | Wiki |What's not academic writing? • Advertisements • Poems • Propaganda • Rumors • Diaries, blogs • Slangy or local language Page top | Wiki |What's hypertext? • Definition of hypertext • Direct linking to source or deepening knowledge • Referring Page top | Wiki