- Code
- ELL 102
- Name
- Academic Writing
- Semester
- 2
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This course provides students with strategies and practice needed to be successful at writing essays in academic level.
- Objectives
-
- To equip students with knowledge on strategies essays of various types. - Enable the student to use the process of writing - To enable the correct use of written language
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Writing for an academic audience. Rhetorical and genre analysis: essays and journal articles.
- 2
- Thesis statements. Controlling ideas. Parts of an essay.
- 3
- Paragraph Structure: Topic sentence; explanation, evidence, and support; and conclusion.
- 4
- APA and MLA. Citing and referencing sources: avoiding plagiarism. Paraphrasing and quoting.
- 5
- The process of Academic Writing. Pre-writing: Brainstorming, choosing and narrowing the topic.
- 6
- Planning and outlining: Parallel Form Rule, Equivalent Value Rule. Review.
- 7
- Drafting and revising: higher order concerns and lower order concerns. Providing peer feedback.
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Transitions. Logical order of ideas. Cohesiveness and coherency.
- 10
- Voice and style; grammatical concerns. Mechanics. Formatting according to APA / MLA
- 11
- Argumentative essays, compare and contrast essays, descriptive essays.
- 12
- Writing literature reviews. Reference lists and annotated bibliographies.
- 13
- Research / journal articles.
- 14
- Writing reports. Dissertations.
- 15
- Writing personal statements / essays.
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students should be able to write clear, well-structured academic texts of some length, with a high degree of grammatical accuracy and in an appropriate style (essays, articles, dissertations, etc.)
- 2
- Students should be able to use in a appropriate way a range of argument types and demonstrate a command of both general and specialised vocabulary
- 3
- Students should be able to edit one's own and colleagues' texts, improving them stylistically and grammatical
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 35% 35%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 15% 15%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 70%
- Final exam percent
- 30%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 1 3 3
- Midterms
- 1 8 8
- Final exam
- 1 12 12
- Other
- 1 6 6
- Total workLoad
- 119
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 4.76
- ECTS
- 5.00