Bachelor Paper

Course: English Studies and Two Foreign Languages

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Bachelor Paper
Code
OK 17
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2018/2019
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
Learning outcomes
PLO 2, PLO 6, PLO 7, PLO 11, PLO 12, PLO 15, PLO 17, PLO 19 The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the rules of the English scientific language. To be able to work analytically with professional texts. To have communicative skills in modelling written texts.
Course content
The purpose of writing and defending the bachelor's thesis is to establish the actual compliance of the level of educational and qualification training of the graduate with the requirements of the educational and qualification characteristics of the specialty (direction of training). Bachelor paper involves conducting independent research in the field of linguistics. The work is aimed at testing professional knowledge in the subject area and is designed to finally identify the level of mastery of specialists receiving a bachelor's degree, of the knowledge of English philology, as well as skills of linguistic analysis of language material. The bachelor paper tests and confirms the ability to perform linguistic analysis of a variety of language material using the latest research methods.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Crossley S. А. A Linguistic Analysis of Simplified and Authentic Texts // The Modern Language Journal. – 2007. – Vol. 91, issue 1. – P. 15–30. Jørgensen M. W. Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method – London : SAGA Publications Ltd, 2002. – 230 p. Pavey E. L. The Structure of Language: An Introduction to Grammatical Analysis. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. – 422 p. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics / ed. by Keith Allan, Kasia M. Jaszczolt. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. – 786 p. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis / ed. by Bernd Heine, Heiko Narrog. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. – 1,048 p. Основні вимоги до підготовки та написання навчально-наукових і кваліфікаційних робіт (для студентів-філологів): Методична розробка. – К., 2011. – 82 с. Селіванова О. О. Сучасна лінгвістика: термінологічна енциклопедія. – Полтава : Довкілля-К, 2006. – 716 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Preparation of the work includes stages of selection and approval of the topic, consultation with the supervisor, collection of material, elaboration of sources and scientific theoretical, methodological and critical literature, drawing up a plan, writing a work, appropriate design and defense.
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation for writing a bachelor's thesis consists of three components: 1) evaluation of the supervisor, who fills in the response form of the supervisor in accordance with the evaluation criteria (10% of the evaluation); 2) evaluation of the reviewer who fills in the review form in accordance with the evaluation criteria (45% of the evaluation); 3) grades for the defense of the thesis (45% of the grade), which is issued by the attestation commission and entered in the final evaluation sheet, which also contains the overall grade as an arithmetic whole of three components (100%). The paper is submitted to the attestation commission in writing according to the approved form together with other accompanying documents: review of the supervisor and review. Public defense of the thesis takes place in the form of presentations using various forms of report visualization.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Alla Dmitrivna Bielova
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Olga Volodymyrivna Yashenkova
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Lidiia Heorhiivna Verba
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology