Academic Writing- Dr Ajay Semalty (Course Coordinator)
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Date: 03/01/2018

MOOC on "Academic Writing"
By- Dr Ajay Semalty, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India
 Hello and warm Welcome to all learners in this MOOC on Academic writing. Friends, Academic writing is the utmost requirement of academic and research career. Academic writing is an art as well as a science. You may learn science in classes but the art is to be inculcated within ourselves. To present your hard work in the form of publication you must need to be familiar with the fundamentals of academic writing. You have done your work and now you want publish it. In this regard you have to present it in the most simple and effective way for the reader/journal or editor. 
 Inspite of being the vital requirement in academic & research career there is no comprehensive set up of learning academic writing in the knowledge domain. Only in some PG courses and all pre-PhD courses a bit of content is provided and that to without the practical aspects. This course aims to fill this gap by providing the fundamental knowledge required for effective and result oriented academic writing. 
Though the academic writing is a very vast topic scope of this course shall be limited to the fundamental knowledge required for academic writing in Science disciplines by and large. The course will deliver the fundamentals of literature review, Plagiarism, indices of research (impact factor, h index etc.), targeting suitable journal and writing research & review papers. As it is just a foundation course the application of this knowledge completely depends on an individual learner and his or her area of research.

Objective of Course
 Upon completing the course one would be able 
1. To understand the importance of academic writing 
2. To understand the basic skills of literature review 
3. To understand the basic skills of research paper and review paper writing.
4. To target the research work to suitable journal and communicate for publication
5. To understand and avoid the plagiarism 
Target Group: Any student or learner who wants to learn the academic writing.
 Outline: 
• The course consists of 20 learning e modules (of total 10 hrs) which would be covered in in 4 weeks (5 lectures per week format). 
• Non-credit based course. 
• Certificate shall be issued after successful completion of a Proctored Term End Exam. The Term end exam would carry 75 % weightage while the quizzes and MCQs (after each week) would carry 25 % weightage.
• Discussion forum will be available for answering the queries during the course. 
The Course shall be designed with the USPs: Easy language, to-the-point coverage of topics, pictorial/graphical, animated and AV e content. 
Course Layout:
Week one: Introduction to Academic Writing (2.5 hr);
 Content writer & video presenter:- Dr Ajay Semalty
Week Two: Plagiarism, Metrics (2.5 hr);  Content writer & video presenter:- Dr Mona Semalty
Week Three: Literature Review & Review Article (2.5 hr);  Content writer & video presenter:- Dr Ajay Semalty
Week Four: Research Article Writing (2.5 hr);  Content writer & video presenter:- Dr Ajay Semalty
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