Mentor's Seminar. An Economist's Perspective

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Theoretical Economics

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Ananyin, Oleg I.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The mentor's seminar is aimed at forming an individual learning trajectory and individual educational results for each student of the trajectory. The mentor defines a list of key educational outcomes that all students of the educational trajectory should achieve. The seminar can have the format of a standard traditional discipline and a tutor format that provides consultations on scientific papers/projects. At the same time, it is possible to use an asynchronous communication format.

Learning Objectives

• The mentor's seminar is aimed at forming an individual learning trajectory and individual educational results for each student of the trajectory. Students receive guidance in their work on term paper topic proposals, writing literature reviews, and drafts of their term papers.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to consolidate their reading in their research area by writing an annotated bibliography and /or literature review
• Students will be able to write an abstract for a future and completed project
• The students will develop/improve academic and professional writing skills

Course Contents

• Developing a term paper proposal
• Developing a literature review
• Developing a term paper

Assessment Elements

• Proposal (тема и проект курсовой работы)
  Подготовка текста документа
• Literature review (обзор литературы по теме)
  Подготовка письменного обзора литературы по теме курсовой работы
• Term paper (курсовая работа)
  Написание предварительного варианта (draft) курсовой работы в соответствии с утвержденной темой

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.3 * Literature review (обзор литературы по теме) + 0.2 * Proposal (тема и проект курсовой работы) + 0.5 * Term paper (курсовая работа)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Academic writing : a handbook for international students, Bailey, S., 2011
• Academic writing for graduate students. Essential tasks and skills, Swales J.M., Feak C.B., 2014
• Bailey, S. (2017). Academic Writing : A Handbook for International Students (Vol. Fifth edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1650435

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 50 steps to improving your academic writing. Study book, Sowton, Ch., 2012
• Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills, Swales, J. M., 2012
• How to write a thesis, Eco, U., 2015
• Johnson, A. P. (2016). Academic Writing : Process and Product. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1222793
• MacDonald, S. (2010). Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Vol. Paperback ed). Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=367965
• Paul J. Silvia. (2019). How to Write a Lot : A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing: Vol. Second edition. APA LifeTools.

Authors

• Мальбахова Диса Анзоровна
• Ananin Oleg Igorevich