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Students cannot join Academic Writing 2 without having completed Academic Writing 1.
About this courses
On this course you will
- learn the processes of writing cause and effect and discursive essays.
- do further work on descriptive essays on one’s own academic subject of interest.
- do further work on pre-writing tasks.
- practise how to use reference materials and summarise, paraphrase and quote.
- learn how to write a bibliography and make quotations.
Course Outline
According to students needs, the following points will be covered on the course:
- Organising ideas and generating ideas through brainstorming and outlining
- Developing clear outlines, introductions and thesis statements
- Organising a cause and effect essay
- Evaluating the structure and language of learners’ essays
- Organising a discursive essay
- Using quotations in an essay
- Writing different types of bibliographies
- Paraphrasing and summarising and avoiding plagiarism
Students will write five essays over the course, much of which will be done as homework. One of the essays will be timed-writing in class.
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