The English of Science in Health Care Research (DN_206)

Doctoral students will be able to write the first version of the manuscript of a scientific article, according to the peculiarities of the scientific genre and its sections. Doctoral students will be able to choose appropriate lexicogrammatical devices according to text formation of a health care science article in English. Doctoral students will be able to comment on, justify the structure and organisation of scientific manuscripts and other scientific genres (e.g. poster presentations) in English, as well as compare the content, informative, stylistic and lexicogrammatical features of different health care science texts. Doctoral students will be able to draw independent conclusions on text quality issues from representative examples of health care science texts and provide constructive feedback in discussions on improving text quality, using appropriate terminology to link the research design and its linguistic realisation in the practice of scientific articles. The doctoral student is able to write grammatically correct and scientifically appropriate texts in a foreign language and to improve the quality of the written text by using analogue and digital language resources. The doctoral student is able to use terms relevant to the field of science, is able to explain them in a foreign language, as well as is able to justify the choice of their research topic, describe its content, research process, hypothesis, goal, objectives, main conclusions in a foreign language. The doctoral student is able to produce a logical written text according to the pragmatic aim of the research and the genre of the information science text. The doctoral student is able to orally present their scientific research to the target audience using linguistic and text formation means appropriate to the foreign language of science. The doctoral student is able to structure their oral communication in a foreign language in accordance with the principles of science communication in order to actively engage in international research, both written and oral, respecting scientific and linguistic culture, as well as academic ethics.