2017-2018 Academic Year Fall Semester COMU ELT Department Advanced Reading and Writing Course S. Razı 1 Title of the Course: Advanced Reading and Writing Skills 1 Course-No: İNÖ107 Semester: 1 st Year 1 st Semester (Fall) Course type: Lecture Hours- Practice/Week: 3-0 Credits Local ECTS Status: Compulsory Language of Instruction: English 3 6 Lecturer: Assistant Professor Dr. Salim Razı Contact: Web: www.salimrazi.com Email: [email protected]Tel: +90 286 2171303 ext: 3526 - 3661 Fax: +90 286 2120751 Course description: This course aims to develop advanced written skills by means of critical analysis of academic texts. Learners will be familiarized with several effective reading strategies, mainly metacognitive ones, by the help of which they can increase their reading skills. Readings will come from the relevant literature in various ways such as academic books and journals which enable learners to develop and increase vocabulary in an academic context with the hope of contributing to their reading and writing skills. Therefore, students will be able to comprehend contrasting viewpoints and to predict and identify main ideas. It also aims to equip students with intensive and extensive reading habits which will then foster their reading and writing speeds. Critical thinking skills such as synthesizing information or analyzing a problem as well as reacting on the basis of evaluation are fostered. Such sub-skills of reading are employed by the students in their writing assignments. The course mainly encourages learners to write academic texts. Learners will have the opportunity of scaffolding through peer feedback exchange on their written assignments. Learners will be expected to analyse and produce essays considering the organization, coherence, cohesion, unity, vocabulary selection, in-text citations rules including quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing as this course aims to teach academic writing to students who need to present and defend their own points of view clearly and persuasively. Students also work to master the norms of in-text citations and attributing data from print and other sources, and to observe the methods of acknowledging the research findings of others, specifically in the APA style.
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2017-2018 Academic Year Fall Semester COMU ELT Department Advanced Reading and Writing Course S. Razı
Coursedescription:This course aims to develop advanced written skills by means of critical analysis ofacademic texts. Learnerswill be familiarizedwith several effective reading strategies,mainlymetacognitiveones,bythehelpofwhichtheycan increasetheirreadingskills.Readingswillcomefromtherelevantliteratureinvariouswayssuchasacademicbooksandjournalswhichenablelearnerstodevelopandincreasevocabularyinanacademiccontext with the hope of contributing to their reading and writing skills. Therefore,studentswillbeabletocomprehendcontrastingviewpointsandtopredictandidentifymain ideas. It alsoaims toequip studentswith intensiveandextensive readinghabitswhichwill then foster theirreadingandwritingspeeds.Critical thinkingskillssuchassynthesizing information or analyzing a problem as well as reacting on the basis ofevaluationarefostered.Suchsub-skillsofreadingareemployedbythestudentsintheirwritingassignments.Thecoursemainlyencourageslearnerstowriteacademictexts.Learnerswillhavetheopportunity of scaffolding through peer feedback exchange on their writtenassignments.Learnerswillbeexpected toanalyseandproduceessaysconsidering theorganization, coherence, cohesion, unity, vocabulary selection, in-text citations rulesincludingquoting,paraphrasing,andsummarizingasthiscourseaimstoteachacademicwritingtostudentswhoneedtopresentanddefendtheirownpointsofviewclearlyandpersuasively.Studentsalsoworktomasterthenormsofin-textcitationsandattributingdata fromprint and other sources, and to observe themethods of acknowledging theresearchfindingsofothers,specificallyintheAPAstyle.
2017-2018 Academic Year Fall Semester COMU ELT Department Advanced Reading and Writing Course S. Razı
informalwriting.Teachingaids: PowerPointpresentation,Turnitin(text-matchingsoftware)Assessmentmethod:GoodnewsJTherearenopenandpapertestsforthiscourse.However,itdoesnotnecessarilymean that you will pass without any efforts. During the term, you need to submit 4 writtenassignmentsatanaveragelengthof500wordsforeach.Inaddition,youalsoneedtoexchangefeedback with three peers that are assigned by the lecturer. For each assignment, you areexpectedtoreviseyourpaperbythehelpofthepeerfeedbackthatyouretrieveandsubmititasa revision assignment. Please remember that all revision assignments need to be submitteddigitallybothwith andwithout tracksof changes.Theprocessof submitting assignments andexchangingpeer feedbackwill bemanaged throughTurnitin.Hard-copyor email submissionswill not be taken into consideration. Scores retrieved frompeer review taskswill function asmid-termexaminationandhavetheweightof40%whereasscoresretrievedfromwritingtaskswillfunctionasfinalexaminationandhavetheweightof60%.Attendancepolicy:Youneedtoreadrelatedchaptersbeforetheclass.Attendancewillbetakenandrecordedinallclasssessions.Youneedtoattend70%ofthelecturesotherwiseyouautomaticallyfail.Plagiarismpolicy:Eitheraccidentalorintentional,thereisnotoleranceforplagiarism.Youneedtosubmitallyourassignments through Turnitin and as the lecturer I will determine the originality of yourassignments by checking them against plagiarism. Please check departmental policy ofplagiarismforfurtherdetails.Registrationfortheexamination: Tosubmityourassignmentsandtoreviewyourpeer’sassignmentsthroughTurnitin,youneedtoenrolinTurnitinvirtualclass.Assignmentrequirements:
• MustbeonA-4paper.• Musthave2.5cmmargins(onallsides)andmustbewrittenwithdoublespacing.• DoNOTwrite your name or faculty number on your assignments. This is essential as
