Course Description
This is a one-semester Academic English course for students with an intermediate English language level. Students have three class hours every week. The course requires students to apply the skills they have learned in University English or Academic English course(s). Additionally, students will learn to use introductory academic writing skills. These skills include: writing summaries and responses, conducting secondary research, evaluating sources, documenting the research process, considering the rhetorical situation, making an argument, paraphrasing from sources, using academic language, and writing coherently. Students are expected to analyze sample academic text for discipline-specific academic features in preparation for advanced academic writing. Depending on students’ disciplines, they will be introduced to different genres in academic writing (e.g. essays, reports, case studies, research proposals, book reviews, literature reviews, reflective writing, etc.).
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Understand and replicate general features of academic texts in their discipline.
CILO-2: Summarize and respond to short academic texts in their discipline.
CILO-3: Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation in their writing.
CILO-4: Produce writing in different academic genres.
CILO-5: Evaluate the reliability of sources they use as supporting evidence.
CILO-6: Develop metacognitive awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of their own writing.