Learning Outcome:
Academic writing is a formal, structured and sophisticated writing to fulfill the requirements of a particular field of study. The course aims at providing understanding of writers goal of writing and to use that awareness into one's own writing.
Course Contents
Academic vocabulary.
Quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing a text.
Process of academic writing
Rhetoric: Persuasion and identification
Elements of Rhetoric
Sentence Structure.
Sentence Skills
TYPES OF WRITING
Persuasive
Argumentative
Analytical
Comparing and Contrasting
Cause and Effect
Commentaries
Personal Profiles
PARAGRAPH AND ESSAY WRITING
LETTERS
OFFICIAL WRITING
TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC REPORT
Text Book:
The Writer's Workplace by John Scarry and Sandra Scarry
Academic Writing for Graduate Students by Swales, J.M and Feak, C.B.
Mid: 30
Assignments: 10
Major assignment : 10
Final term: 25
Viva: 25
| Day | Time |
| Monday | 8am- 9:30 am |
| Tuesday | 8am- 9;30 am |
Course Material
- Total Lessons 16
- Department Politics and International Relations
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Teacher
Sundar Huma
