Intended learning outcomes

Group 4 - Spring Semester - 2013

Course Syllabus

Course description/overview

This course enables students to deal with the academic reading and writing requirements of the program courses. Course activities develop advanced-level reading ability by focusing on main ideas and specific information, by recognizing lexical meaning from content areas in context, and by training in writing that presents clear, well-researched arguments within particular essay styles and structures. Students will acquire independent research skills, using online and print sources in a responsible and ethical manner so as to extend their critical thinking ability within a piece of academic discourse. They will learn to find and select relevant reading texts that provide information and interpretations that can be used to support their ideas and provide evidence in their essays. Students will need to process and critically analyze that information before incorporating it within their own arguments. A process-writing approach will be adopted, with greater emphasis on the process of reading and writing and on drafts of the essay than on the final product.

Learning objectives

Students will learn how to demonstrate competence in the following aspects of academic writing and reading:

· Write a discussion essay

· Write a problem-solution essay

· Read texts critically

· Review scholarly articles

· Expand an awareness of the writing process

· Annotate readings and take notes

· Summarize, paraphrase and quote sources

· Prepare in-text citations and references page in APA style

· Develop academic vocabulary

· Revise and edit drafts of papers

· Write grammatically correct sentences with an academic tone

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to show competence in the following outcomes, to the standard required by academic tertiary education institutions in Kazakhstan:

1. Find and select relevant source materials for essay writing

2. Build comprehension of the text by

· identifying the main idea and supporting details

· understanding organization of the text

· predicting the meaning of unfamiliar words

3. Review information from a text by

· paraphrasing passages

· giving explanations of expressions from a text

· summarizing the major ideas of a text

· making inferences about an author’s ideas

· evaluating information through critical appraisal

4. Develop and shape ideas in discussion and problem-solution essays by:

· outlining

· writing appropriate introductory paragraphs

· writing an effective thesis statement

· organizing and developing ideas in the body paragraphs

· writing appropriate concluding paragraphs

· using academic sources for credibility of arguments

· using citations and references in current APA format and avoiding academic dishonesty

5. Use standard academic style when writing

6. Provide peer feedback

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