LC-1117 - Integrated Oral and Written Skills (o,w), Lecture (BSc Data Science group 2), 12.9.2023-21.11.2023

MATERIALS PER TOPIC

•    Articles

• Contastive connectors and signposts
• Patterns of organisation
  

        See also organisational patterns/extended definition under Signposts/

Paragraphs and topic sentences,

• Topic sentences

Plagiarism: avoiding plagiarism, using information resources

• Game: avoiding plagiarism
• Purdue OWL: Avoiding plagiarism
• Purdue OWL: Quoting, summarising, paraphrasing
• Citing Wikipedia
• Aalto University Learning Centre: Using information resources
• Plagiarism: University of Oxford resource
• Independent Turnitin Originality Check (MyCourses)
• Turnitin information (Aalto)
  
  Referencing conventions
  

• Aalto University Learning Centre
• University of Cambridge: guidelines
• Chicago Manual of Style: Author-Date System
• Citation styles APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE (University of Pittsburgh)
• Citing and referencing (Monash U)
• Harvard style of referencing: guide and examples
• APA style

Principles of readibility: Put action into the verb

• Avoiding weak verbs  (p. 49-50)

Problem-solution pattern:

• WGE p. 38.  2.1.8. Situation - problem - solution - evaluation

Punctuation:

• Punctuation (AWE)
  
• Purdue OWL
  

• Given-new principle
  Organising flow
  Creating Focus  Topic and comment
  Topical progession
  Topicalising phrases
  
  

• Synonymous repetition
  Pronouns (it, they / this these)

Readability:  Light before heavy

• Light before heavy

Readibility: Put action into the verb

• Avoiding weak verbs  (p. 49-50)
  

Readability: Topical into subject position

•  Place topical into subject position
• Staying on topic/Creating flow

Relative clauses

Style  (WGE p.44)  Style in AWE

• Avoid contractions (WGE, p. 49)
• Vocabulary: verbs, adjective, adverbs, nouns, prepositions  (WGE, 44-48)
• Sentence style and grammar
• Avoid possessive 's with inanimate objects 
• Avoid run-on expressions  (WGE, p. 54)