| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Week 1-4: Orienting yourself to academic writing and research
Introduction
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| Week 2 |
Chapter 1 and 3, Elements of Academic Style
Chapter 1, The Stolen Bicycle, Wu Ming-yi
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| Week 3 |
Chapter 4 and 5, Elements of Academic Style
Short video clip: Close reading of A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua
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| Week 4 |
Chapter 6 and 7, Elements of Academic Style
Short abstract of past paper due.
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| Week 5 |
Weeks 5-9: Engaging with graduate level texts
Chapter 8-10, Elements of Academic Style
Circulate a paper that you’ve written.
Article discussion: Anna Tsing, Friction |
| Week 6 |
Chapter 11-13, Elements of Academic Style
Present a paper you’ve written in 10 minutes (According to Hayot’s Structure and Uneven U).
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| Week 7 |
Midterm break
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| Week 8 |
Chapter 17-18, Elements of Academic Style
Article discussion: Coole and Frost, New Materialisms
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| Week 9 |
Article review from Friction or New Materialisms due.
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| Week 10 |
Weeks 10-14: Developing a research proposal
Chapter 19, Elements of Academic Style
Research topic brainstorming
Article discussion: Joanne Leow, “The Intimacies and Ruins of Transnational Sand in Singapore”
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| Week 11 |
Expanding previous papers
Annotated bibliography draft
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| Week 12 |
Citational practice
Presentations on annotated bibliography
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| Week 13 |
Presentations on annotated bibliography
Image analysis: Close reading of visual texts.
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| Week 14 |
Research proposal draft due
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| Week 15 |
Weeks 15-18: Research proposal
Presenting your research at a conference
Journal article-writing
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| Week 16 |
Mock conference / final research proposal workshop
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| Week 17 |
Final research proposal due
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| Week 18 |
Final research proposal due
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