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    Writing Academic Research
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) AMMOUR Kamila
    The course writing Academic Research is an advanced methodology module designed for Master’s students in Foreign Language Didactics who are preparing their Master’s dissertations. It aims to develop both students’ research competence and their academic writing literacy, enabling them to produce a coherent, methodologically sound, and academically credible dissertation. The course begins by distinguishing between doing research and writing research, emphasizing that collecting data and reporting it in an academic text require different but complementary skills. The Master’s dissertation istreated as an academic genre, following Swales’ (1990) theory of genre as a socially recognized form of communication characterized by a specific communicative purpose, schematic structure, content, and style. Students learn that their dissertation must follow the traditional simple model (Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion), whichis the standard format required by the Department of English. A core component of the course focuses on research planning, including the selection of a research topic, formulation of a research problem, definition of research aims and objectives, and the choice of an appropriate research design (case study, survey, experimental, or interpretive). Following Creswell (2014) and Cohen et al. (2007), students are trained to ensure that their research is systematic, empirically grounded, and theoretically informed. Students are then guided through the writing of a research proposal, which includes the title, background literature, objectives, methodology, significance of the study, and key references. Special attention is given to the rhetorical structure of the dissertation introduction based on Swales and Feak’s (1994) Create-A-Research-Space (CARS) model, which teaches students how to establish a research territory, identify a gap, and position their own study. Finally, the course develops students’ ability to write the main chapters of the dissertation, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion, and to use the APA referencing system correctly, ensuring academic integrity, clarity, and scholarly by distinguishing credibility.