This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and command of skills which are essential to write effectively and read critically academic texts and pieces of research. Students are expected to acquire the ability to elaborate a structured research proposal in line with a research question of interest to them.

Upon completion of this course, students will have acquired the ability to: carry out an accurate literature review on a specific topic of interest; identify and formulate a sound research question; make sense of a theory or a theoretical framework to derive research hypotheses in response to the research question; collect, assess and make use of primary and secondary sources of data; properly structure an academic paper; effectively read academic texts.

This intensive course provides students with a grounding in essential skills related to the writing and reading of academic texts. It will enable them to expand their skills and build their self-confidence as academic readers, researchers, and writers. The course covers the fundamentals: how to write and read scholarly texts; how to read and write with a focus on logical validity and coherence as an academic writer; how to plan and organize a well-structured argument or explanation; how to find and cite sources; how to use Internet and social media for bibliographic research.

Slides, recommended readings and in-class exercises for each week will be posted on the Luiss Learn page of the course.

Lectures, discussions, workshop.

This is a pass/fail course. There are no formal assignments or grades. Exempted and non-compliant students: please contact the instructor and teaching assistants as early as possible after the beginning of the semester.

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