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