NTRODUCTION

The course aims at providing understanding of writer's goal of writing and to use that understanding and awareness for academic reading and writing.

 

CREDIT HOURS: 3

 

PRE-REQUISITE: Nill

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Learn academic writing skills
  • Acquire argumentative writing techniques
  • Understand referencing the sources
  • Learn the technical aspects of referencing 

 

TEXT BOOK:

  1. Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students 3rd Edition

 

COURSE CONTENTS:

  • Academic vocabulary
  • Quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing texts
  • Process of academic writing
  • Rhetoric: persuasion and identification
  • Elements of Rhetoric: Text, Author, Audience, Purposes, Setting
  • Sentence structure: Accuracy, Variation, Appropriateness, and Conciseness
  • Sentence Skills (choice of verbs, passive structures and nominalizations)
  • Appropriate use of active and passive voice
  • Types of writing: Persuasive Argumentative, Analytical, Comparing and Contrasting, Explaining Cause and Effect, Commentaries and Opinion, Personal Profiles
  • Paragraph and Essay Writing: organization and structure of paragraph and essay, logical reasoning, transitional devices (word, phrase and expressions), development of ideas in writing
  • Letters: of Invitation, of Regrets, of Sales/Persuasive letters
  • Official Writing: Joining/leaving reports, Notifications, Meeting notices, Minutes of meeting
  • Technical and Scientific Reports: Styles of documentation (MLA and APA), In-text citations
  • Issues in scientific Writing (plagiarism, authorship, ghost writing, reproducible research)
  • How to do a peer review and how to communicate with the lay public

 

COURSE ASSESSMENT:

  • Final Term Exam: 50 Marks
  • Mid Term Exam: 30 Marks
  • Sessional: 20 Marks
    • Assignment: 10 Marks
    • Presentation: 10 Marks