TYPE OF ACTIVITY: PhD Course

Course Aim
The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to aspects of academic writing of scientific articles in English in terms of grammar and structure as related to genre and function, while providing time for participants to work on their own articles. The course focuses on the language features and structures of academic articles in particular, though can also be useful for participants working on other kinds of academic writing as well, such as monographs, literature reviews etc.
The course takes its point of departure in a functional grammar and genre-based approach and will include examples of generically appropriate sample texts with related exercises, as well as structured writing time for participants to work with their own texts.
The course will be taught in English; however, participants are welcome to ask questions and do group work in Danish. The course incorporates a distribution of instructional activity types including instructor presentations, structured pair and group work as well as time for individual writing on participants’ own drafts.

Prerequisites
In order to participate in the workshop, participants must bring a rough draft or sketch of the article they wish to work on, or at least have started the writing process on an article (or if need be, a chapter in their monograph). In other words, participants should have an idea about the article’s main idea/contribution as well as an outline for the article as well as several paragraphs of text to work with during the three days of the course.
The course works best if you have an idea of what you want to write and have a few pages of text that you can work with, as these will be the basis for your revision/writing exercises. Time will be made available each day to revise, write and edit your article draft during the workshop with sparring from the other participants and from the instructor.
Participants are expected to have a working level of written English language skills at the tertiary level. This workshop focuses on genre-specific language patterns and conventions in academic writing and is not a language/grammar course.

Contributions
Participants should find and bring an example of what they would consider a good article relevant to their field of research. Please send this article in PDF format to annavera@sigsgaard.com a couple of days before the course starts. We will use these articles for analysis and comparison during some of the exercises.

• Participants must bring a computer / tablet for working on their own and other’s drafts (remember a power cable if necessary).

Readings

• Relevant literature and readings will be made available prior to and during the workshop

Course Content

Course content will cover the following topics, prioritized depending on participant needs:

• Genre add text style in articles and papers
• Moving from more spoken-like to more written-like, academic language
• Text structure at the whole-text, paragraph and clause levels
• Text density and clarity
• Punctuation and citation

Suggested Program
The following is a preliminary program; content may be adjusted prior to and during the workshop based on participant levels. Adjustments may also be made underway, depending on participant requests.

The course runs over 3 days.

Day 1: Wednesday November 1st, 10:30 – 15:30

• Introduction
• Your Academic Writing Profile
• The Structure of an academic article (at the whole-text level)
• Thematic structures at the whole-text level
• What is a paragraph (and paragraph structures)

Day 2: Thursday November 2nd, 9:00-15

• Stages in the introduction
• Referring to other people’s work
• Structure at the clause-level (Theme-Rheme)
• Transitions and transitional devices

Day 3: Friday November 3th, 9:00-15

• Coherence and cohesion (making sure your sentences fit together)
• Constructing findings: connecting your data (what we see) with theory (what we know) in your analysis
• Making your language more written like looking at noun- groups and nominalizations

ECTS: Full participation earns 3 ECTS points.

Location: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Exners plads 7, 8000 Aarhus.

Max number of participants: 14

The seats are distributed between PhD students from Aarhus School of Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy, and Design School Kolding with 5, 5 and 4 seats per institution. Interested PhD students from other institutions will be placed on a waiting list until the deadline for enrolment has exceeded.

Registration deadline: October 9th 2023

Registration via e-mail to PhD coordinator Mia Mimi Flodager, mmf@aarch.dk.

Course Description:

The course introduces research within design and architecture and associated fields to PhD fellows in the early stages of their PhD. It will help PhDs develop a general understanding of research through in-depth engagement with research components such as research questions, contextualisation, methods, research design and findings. The course alternates between lectures, discussions and workshops. This format will let the participants test, develop and discuss the content of the lectures on their research projects to expand and sharpen the focus, scope and methodologies. The course is based on an inclusive methodological and topical approach but will address the role of designing as part of the research process.

Teaching formats: Lectures, discussions, participant presentations, workshops. The course requires the preparation of project presentations and literature reading before and between the two parts of the course. The participants will receive a reading list.

Course instructors:

MSO Professor Claus Peder Pedersen, Aarhus School of Architecture

Associate professor Richard Herriott, Kolding Design School

Bibliographies of course instructors:

Claus Peder Pedersen is an MSO Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, where he is head of the joint PhD School of Aarhus School of Architecture and the Design School of Kolding. His research focuses on architectural design methodologies and creative processes with an interest in representation and digital design tools. He actively promotes practice- and design-driven research as part of the CA²RE network and previously the ADAPT-r Marie Curie ITN. He is educated as an architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and holds a PhD in architecture from The Aarhus School of Architecture.

Richard Herriott is Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Design School Kolding. He currently researches design processes and methods in Universal Design. He also writes and teaches about research methodology, and design theory (aesthetics and research design). Richard Herriott has worked with the concept of Inclusive Design in his PhD project, which is a method that originated in product design. His PhD project examined this in relation to public transport, where the methods and intentions of inclusive design are applicable but where there are different design conditions. The PhD project was completed in 2014 at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Richard Herriott is author of The Aesthetics of Industrial Design (2022, Routledge).

Target group: The course targets PhDs in the early stages of their research project.

Number of participants: minimum 6 and maximum 18

Course language: English

ECTS points: 4 ECTS

Location: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exners Plads 7, 8000 Aarhus C

Dates: November 22nd-23rd & December 5th-6th 2023

Registration deadline: November 1st 2023

Registration via e-mail to PhD Coordinator Mia Mimi Flodager, mmf@aarch.dk.

Course Description:

The course introduces research within design and architecture and associated fields to PhD fellows in the early stages of their PhD. It will help PhDs develop a general understanding of research through in-depth engagement with research components such as research questions, contextualisation, methods, research design and findings. The course alternates between lectures, discussions and workshops. This format will let the participants test, develop and discuss the content of the lectures on their research projects to expand and sharpen the focus, scope and methodologies. The course is based on an inclusive methodological and topical approach but will address the role of designing as part of the research process.

Teaching formats: Lectures, discussions, participant presentations, workshops. The course requires the preparation of project presentations and literature reading before and between the two parts of the course. The participants will receive a reading list.

Course instructors:

MSO Professor Claus Peder Pedersen, Aarhus School of Architecture

Associate professor Richard Herriott, Kolding Design School

Bibliographies of course instructors:

Claus Peder Pedersen is an MSO Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, where he is head of the joint PhD School of Aarhus School of Architecture and the Design School of Kolding. His research focuses on architectural design methodologies and creative processes with an interest in representation and digital design tools. He actively promotes practice- and design-driven research as part of the CA²RE network and previously the ADAPT-r Marie Curie ITN. He is educated as an architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and holds a PhD in architecture from The Aarhus School of Architecture.

Richard Herriott is Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Design School Kolding. He currently researches design processes and methods in Universal Design. He also writes and teaches about research methodology, and design theory (aesthetics and research design). Richard Herriott has worked with the concept of Inclusive Design in his PhD project, which is a method that originated in product design. His PhD project examined this in relation to public transport, where the methods and intentions of inclusive design are applicable but where there are different design conditions. The PhD project was completed in 2014 at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Richard Herriott is author of The Aesthetics of Industrial Design (2022, Routledge).

Target group: The course targets PhDs in the early stages of their research project.

Number of participants: minimum 6 and maximum 18

Course language: English

ECTS points: 4 ECTS

Location: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exners Plads 7, 8000 Aarhus C

Dates: November 22nd-23rd & December 5th-6th 2023

Registration deadline: November 1st 2023

Registration via e-mail to PhD Coordinator Mia Mimi Flodager, mmf@aarch.dk.