ECTS: 2.5
Course leader: Morten Pilegaard
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Course fee: 3,000.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2027
Application deadline: 04/01/2027
Cancellation deadline: 18/01/2027
Course type: Online education
Start date: 01/02/2027
Administrator: Anne Fabricius Søndergaard
Duplicate course
Please do not sign up for more than one course in ”Basic Course in Written English”.
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The Course, A103/124 Basic Course in Written English - Online, is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2027.
Criteria for participation:
University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Aim:
The aim of this course is to impart knowledge about and give course participants an introduction to academic text production in English, applying textual and discourse strategies and methodologies in accordance with the current conventions of written academic English in health sciences.
Learning outcomes:
- Knowledge about guidelines and conventions governing the structuring of clinical research papers.
- Knowledge of principles of cohesion and thematic structure in research papers.
- Knowledge of some of the main differences between English and Danish syntax and grammar.
- Ability to describe typical structural and linguistic features of poster, abstract and paper.
- Ability to trace errors of syntax and grammar in English-language texts
Workload:
The full workload of the course is expected to be 66 hours.
Content:
The student will acquire knowledge about the conventions of specific academic text genres in health sciences; basic textual and discourse features of such genres including their cohesion and coherence;) efficient and effective processes for writing and responding to reviewers; differences between English and Danish grammar and language usage; and proficiency in the production and revision of specific types of academic text genres and text types in accordance with prevailing conventions for presentation, argumentation, summarizing, etc. in qualitative and quantitative research
Instructors:
Morten Pilegaard and Peter Steffensen
Venue:
ONLINE
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 01 February 2027 08:00 - 12:00
- 08 February 2027 08:00 - 12:00
- 15 February 2027 08:00 - 12:00
- 22 February 2027 08:00 - 12:00