Postgraduate course
2026/2027
Academic Writing for Researches in Education
ID 1066385
Type:
Elective course
Delivered by:
Department of Educational Programmes
Where:
Institute of Education
When:
2 year, 1 semester
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Diana Akhmedjanova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Academic writing is an important component of a doctoral student's work. The ability to present the results of one's own research work in the form of a manuscript and bring it to publication in a journal is the key to the success of doctoral studies. The Academic Writing course is aimed at developing the skills needed at every stage of writing articles: from setting goals and clarifying a problem to the final draft of an article. As a result of the course, each doctoral student will go from the draft version of his article to the text prepared for submission to the target journal.
Learning Objectives
- To develop the skills required to prepare a research publication based on the results of a research study, taking into account the requirements for the content, structure, formatting, and presentation of manuscripts in academic journals.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Selects an appropriate journal for publishing the results of their dissertation research in accordance with the requirements of the dissertation committee.
- Prepares the documentation required for submission to an ethics committee and communicates with the committee in accordance with relevant ethical requirements.
- Develops the structure of a research article in accordance with the logic of their own research and the requirements of the selected journal
- Formulates the title and introduction of their own research article
- Constructs a coherent literature review for their own research article
- Describes the methods and data of their own research accurately and appropriately
- Presents the results of their own research accurately and clearly in a research article
- Interprets the results of their own research and justifies its scientific contribution in accordance with the logic of academic discussion
Course Contents
- Principles of Journal Selection
- Research Ethics and Interaction with an Ethics Committee
- Article Structure
- Article Title and Introduction
- Literature Review
- Methods and Data
- Research Results
- Discussion
