In:ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content
Edited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 4] 2008
► pp. 97–115
4. Curriculum change as a result of the introduction of the masters program: Designing and implementing a European online thesis training course
Published online: 9 July 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.4.07lan
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.4.07lan
LOTT (Leiden Online Thesis Training) is an online course for writing Masters theses at the English department of the University of Leiden (Netherlands). LOTT was a response to curriculum change following the Treaty of Bologna. A description is given of the goals of the course, its development and the role of existing (mainly American) online writing courses and research on thesis writing. An overview is also given of academic writing theory and the principles of genre analysis according to which LOTT was designed. Finally, a discussion is provided of the problems, and their solutions, of online writing courses. It is concluded that while the course is a success, difficulties continue, mainly as a result of unfamiliarity with online courses.
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