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Academic Writing for University Students
Course Description
Total number of contact hours: 40 HRS/ 5 weeks
Academic writing is an important skill for university students. It enables them to communicate their ideas effectively in a clear and concise manner. Academic Writing for University Students is a three-level course designed to provide students with the skills and strategies that enable them to excel in writing. Additionally, this course provides opportunities for students to explore and practice academic writing where they will be taught how to write and edit various kinds of paragraphs, short essays, and essays. Furthermore, teachers will monitor the progress and each individual student and provide them with constructive and immediate feedback.
The three-level structure of the course ensures that students will thoroughly understand the principles of academic writing and gradually proceed from basic concepts to more advanced techniques where each level concentrates on certain features of academic writing
Learning outcomes:
- Paragraph structure and organization:
- Paragraph organization
- Formatting a paragraph
- Unity and coherence in a paragraph
- Simple sentence structure
- Capitalization and end punctuation
- Fragments and run-on-sentences
- Descriptive Paragraphs:
- Structure and organization of descriptive paragraphs
- Using adjective in descriptive paragraphs
- Using verb to be to define and describe.
- Example Paragraphs:
- Structure and organization of example paragraphs
- Using examples as supporting details
- Forming and the simple present tense
- Subject-verb agreement
- Process paragraphs:
- Structure and organization of paragraphs
- Uisng time order words in process paragraphs
- Using imperatives
- Opiinion paragraphs
- Structure and organization of opinion paragraphs
- Using reasons to support an opinion
- Using there is/there are to introduce facts
- Using because of and because to give reasons
- Narrative Paragraphs
- Structure and organization of Narrative Paragraphs
- Using sensory and emotional details
- Showing order of events in narrative paragraphs
- Showing simultaneous events
- Forming and using the simple past.
- Forming and using the past continuous.
- From Paragraph to Short Essay:
- Paragraph structure and organization
- Unity and coherence in a paragraph
- The paragraph and the short essay
- Short essay structure and organization
- Simple and compound sentences
- Run-on-sentences
- Dependent/subordinating clauses
- Descriptive Essays
- Organization and structure of descriptive essays
- Using prepositional phrase in descriptive writing
- Adding details to sentences.
- Using similes in descriptive essays
- Using adjectives in descriptive writing
- Narrative Essays
- Structure and organization of narrative essays
- Showing sequence in narrative essays
- Adding details to narrative essays
- Opinion Essays
- Structure and organization of opinion essays
- Facts and opinions
- Counter-argument and refutation
- Using quantity expressions in opinion essays
- Using connectors to show support and opposition
- Comparison and Contrast Essays
- Comparison and contrast organization
- Comparison and contrast connectors
- Using comparatives in comparison and contrast essays
- Cause and Effect Essays
- Cause and effect organization
- Clustering information
- Causal chains
- The future with will
- Using well with so that
- Expressing future possibilities with if clauses
- The Five-Paragraph Essay
- Structure and organization of the five-paragraph essay
- Coherence and unity in paragraphs and essays
- Main and dependent clauses
- Run-on sentences and fragments
- Verb tense consistency
- Process Analysis Essays
- Structure and organization of process analysis essays
- Sequence connectors
- Time clauses
- Passives and modal passives
- Cause and Effect Essays
- Structure and organization of cause and effect essays
- Relating effects to causes
- Sentence connectors showing cause and effect
- Real and unreal conditionals
- Argumentative Essays
- Structure and organization of argumentative essay
- Counter-arguments
- Refutations
- Concessions
- Connectors showing addition and contrast
- Adverbial clauses
- Noun clauses
- Classification Essays
- Structure and organization of classification essays
- Organizing principles of importance and chronology
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Sentence patterns with verbs
- Reaction Essays
- Structure and organization of reaction essays
- Prepositional phrases
- Using similes in reaction essays
- Restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses
About Instructor
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Razan Taleb
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