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Course: Academic Writing Level: BS 3 Course Code: ELL 203

This document provides information about the Academic Writing course at the BS level. The course aims to help students develop their academic writing skills through practice and feedback. It focuses on skills like critical reading, essay structure, research techniques, and self-reflection. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze texts, distinguish facts from opinions, employ various writing styles, and set goals for continued writing improvement. The course covers topics such as avoiding plagiarism, outlining, revising, and writing different text types. Student work will be assessed through midterm and final exams, class participation, and a research project.

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Course: Academic Writing Level: BS 3 Course Code: ELL 203

This document provides information about the Academic Writing course at the BS level. The course aims to help students develop their academic writing skills through practice and feedback. It focuses on skills like critical reading, essay structure, research techniques, and self-reflection. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze texts, distinguish facts from opinions, employ various writing styles, and set goals for continued writing improvement. The course covers topics such as avoiding plagiarism, outlining, revising, and writing different text types. Student work will be assessed through midterm and final exams, class participation, and a research project.

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Course: Academic Writing

Level: BS 3rd
Course Code: ELL 203

Course Description:

The course envisions the process of academic writing as epistemological- a way of coming to
know. It is designed in a way that writing becomes a deed of self-reflection and self-expression
for the students within the specified boundaries of the two disciplines of linguistics and
literature. Since academic writing is written for a group of scholarly experts, it is formal and
logic and relies on the traditional conventions of essay construction. The course places a fair
amount of emphasis on reading recognizing the fact that effective writing is an outcome of
effective and purposeful reading.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to assist:

 Students develop their writing through a series of steps, the first of which is critical
reading of passages drawn from linguistics and literature.
 Students practice writing to refine their macro level as well as micro level compositional
skills.
 Students train to employ in their essays, various rhetorical modes viz argument, cause
and effect, narration, description, comparison and contrast, exemplification and
classification.
 Students identify strategies to develop awareness of their progress as effective and
conscientious writers.

Course outcome:

By the end of the course, the students are expected to:

 identify main and supporting ideas in challenging texts and critically respond in their
own writing
 Distinguish between fact and opinion and take a critical stance towards ideas raising
questions and evaluating concepts.
 Demonstrate knowledge of basic essay structure including introduction, body and
conclusion while employing the rhetorical modes mentioned in point no.3 of Objectives.
 Employ various stages of writing including pre- writing, writing and re-writing.
 Demonstrate an application of effective paragraphing principles.
 Set goals for themselves and practice self-reflection by maintaining a progress journal
that reports the critical thinking development as well as the development of the craft of
writing.

Course Contents:

Mid Term

1. Features of Academic Writing

2. The Writing Process

 Writing Foundations
 Background to Writing
 Avoiding Plagiarism
 From Titles to Outlines
 Paraphrasing
 Summary Writing
 Combining Sources
 Writing Stages
 Planning Essays
 Organizing Paragraphs
 Organizing the Main Body
 Introductions
 Conclusions
 Rewriting and Proof-reading
3. Elements of Writing

 Argument
 Cause and Effect
 Cohesion
 Comparison
 Definitions
 Discussion
 Generalizations
 Numbers
 Opening Paragraphs
 Reference and Quotations
 Restatement and Repetition
 Style
 Synonyms
 Visual Information
End Term

4.` Accuracy in Writing


 Abbreviations
 Academic Vocabulary
 Parts of Speech
 Punctuation
 Time Words and Phrases
 Verbs (Formality, Modal, Passives, of Reference, Tenses)

5. Writing Models

 Writing summaries of articles


 Report writing
 Analysis and synthesis of academic material in writing
 Presenting an argument in assignments/term-papers and examination answers
 Writing formal letters
 Writing different kinds of applications (leave, job, complaint, etc.)
 Preparing a Curriculum Vitae (CV), (bio-data)
 Essays

Recommended Books:

 Axelrod, R. B and Cooper, C. R. (2002). Reading Critical Writing Well: A Reader and
Guide.
 Bailey, S. (2006). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students Second Edition.
London: Routledge.
 Barnet, S. and Bedau, H. (2004). Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to
Writing. 6th ed.
 Behrens & Rosen. (2007). Reading and Writing across the Curriculum.
 Bowker, N. (Ed.) (2007). Academic Writing. Massey University.
 Gardner, P. S. (2005). New Directions: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking.
 Jordan, K. M. and Plakans, L. (2003). Reading and Writing for Academic Success.
 Jordon, R. R. (1999). Academic Writing Course. CUP.

Assessment:

Total marks: 100


Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)

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