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When I went to uni in Sweden, there was a mandatory course in academic writing as part of CS program. The learning objectives was more than just a styleguide pr
by Jiocus 5y ago
When I went to uni in Sweden, there was a mandatory course in academic writing as part of CS program. The learning objectives was more than just a styleguide proofreading by supervisors though, as methodologies, data collection and paper structures was covered. Pretty much the scientific process really.
This seemed to be quite needed for students to get up to speed. I was from Finland, where this subject was brought up before uni.
For what it's worth, I remember my supervisor calling bullshit on my then dense and overly academic writing and I thank them for it. It was a process of un-learning bad patterns or preconcieved notions about the writing process.
Recommend.
- bonoboTP 5y agoWe have seminar courses for this where master students do some lit review (mainly based around one paper) and present that work in a longer form writing. This is also "just" learning by doing. There is some back-and-forth with PhD students who help with the structure, but there's no explicit instruction.