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2017-2018 Academic Year Fall Semester COMU ELT Department Advanced Reading and Writing Course S. Razı

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TitleoftheCourse:AdvancedReadingandWritingSkills1

Course-No:

İNÖ107

Semester:1stYear1stSemester(Fall)

Coursetype:Lecture Hours-Practice/Week:3-0

Credits

Local ECTS

Status:Compulsory LanguageofInstruction:English 3 6

Lecturer: AssistantProfessorDr.SalimRazı

Contact:

Web:www.salimrazi.comEmail:[email protected]:+902862171303ext:3526-3661Fax:+902862120751

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.


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Teachingmethod: Lectures,extensivereading,peer-review.Prerequisites: Capabilityofadvancedreadingcomprehensionskillsandpracticein

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

peer-reviewprocessismanagedanonymously.• MustbeturnedinontimeonlythroughTurnitin.Lateassignmentswillnotbetakeninto

consideration.


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Week/Date DiscussionTopics RelatedReadings Assignments

Week118-22.09.2017

Introducingcoursecontent.SubmittinganassignmentandexchangingfeedbackthroughTurnitin.

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Week225-29.09.2017

Introductiontoacademicwriting.Razı,2011(Chapter1)

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Week302-06.10.2017

Readingstrategies.Razı,2011(Chapter3)

Assignment1(Firstdraft)

Week409-13.10.2017

Readingprocess.Razı,2011(Chapter2)

Assignment1(Peer)

Week516-20.10.2017

Dealingwithacademicintegrity:Avoidingplagiarismandcontractcheating.2ndInternationalDayofActionagainstcontractcheating.Makinguseofsimilarityreports.

Williams&Davis(2017,pp.67-94)

Assignment1(Revision)

Week623.27-04.11.2017

Connectingideas:Unityandcoherence.

Razı,2011(Chapter6)

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Week730.10-03.11.2017

Introductiontoin-textcitations.Razı,2011(Chapter8)


Week806-10.11.2017

Presentingin-textcitations.Razı,2011(Chapter9)

Assignment2(Peer)

Week913-17.11.2017

Midtermexamweek:Subjecttochange.

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Week1020.11-24.11.2017

Benefitingfromonlinewritingtools(e.g.,SASwritingreviser).

Peachey(2017,pp.21-32)


Week1127.11-01.12.2017

Practisingin-textcitations.Razı,2011(Chapter10)

Assignment3(Peer)

Week1204-08.12.2017

Detailswithin-textcitations.Razı,2011(Chapter11)


Week1311-15.12.2017

Modelsofreading.Backgroundknowledgeandnativization.

Razı,2011(Chapter4&7)


Week1418-22.12.2017

Assessingreading.Razı,2011(Chapter5)

Assignment4(Peer)

25.12.2017-06.01.2018 FinalExam -------------



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Mainreading:Razı,S.(2011).AdvancedreadingandwritingskillsinELT:APAstylehandbook.Ankara:Nobel.Supplementaryreading:Alderson,J.C.(2000).Assessingreading.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.AmericanPsychologicalAssociation.(2001).PublicationmanualoftheAmericanPsychological

Association(5thed.).Washington,DC:Author.Arnold,J.,&Harmer,J.(1978).Advancedwritingskills.London:Longman.Fear,D.E.(1973).Technicalwriting.NewYork,NY:RandomHouse.Hashimoto,I.Y.,Kroll,B.M.,&Schafer, J.C.(1982).Strategiesforacademicwriting:Aguidefor

collegestudents.AnnArbor,MI:TheUniversityofMichiganPress.Hedge,T.(2000).Teachingandlearninginthelanguageclassroom.Oxford:OxfordUniversity

Press.Lay,M.M.(1982).Strategiesfortechnicalwriting.NewYork,NY:Holt,RinehartandWinston.Lester,J.D.(1995).Writingresearchpapers:Acompleteguide.NewYork,NY:HarperCollins.Mills,G.H.,&Walter,J.A.(1962).Technicalwriting.NewYork,NY:Holt,RinehartandWinston.Nara,H.,&Noda,M.(Eds.)(2003).Actsofreading:ExploringconnectionsinpedagogyofJapanese.

Honolulu,HI:UniversityofHawai’iPress.Oshima,A.(1997).Introductiontoacademicwriting.WhitePlains:Longman.Peachy,N.(2017).Digitaltoolsforteachers.PeacheyPublications.Razı,S.(2007).Okumabecerisiöğretimivedeğerlendirilmesi[Teachingandassessingreading].

Istanbul:KriterYayınları.Reid,J.M.(2000).Theprocessofcomposition(3rded.).EnglewoodCliffs:PrenticeHallRegents.Seale,B.(1978).Writingefficiently.NewJersey:Prentice-Hall.Sherman,T.A.,&Johnson,S.S.(1983).Moderntechnicalwriting.NewJersey,NJ:PrenticeHall.Wallace,C.(1992).Reading.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.Williams, K., & davis, M. (2017). Referencing & understanding plagiarism (2nd ed.). London:

Palgrave.Woodward,J.A.(1997).Writingresearchpapers:Investigatingresourcesincyberspace.Chicago,

IL:NTC.


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TurnitinAssignmentSubmissionGuidelinesClassID:16353787Enrollmentpassword:ARAW2017EnrollinginaclassYoumustenrollinyourclassbeforeyoucanbeginusingTurnitin.Todothis,usetheclassIDandenrollment password above. To create your account, please visit http://turnitin.com/ andfollowtheinstructionsbelow.Howtocreateanewuserprofileandenrolinyourclass1. Clickthe“CreateAccount”linktotheleftoftheSigninbuttonontheTurnitinhomepage.

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7. ReviewtheTurnitinuseragreementandclicktoagreeandfinalizeuserprofilecreation.

8. Onceyouregister,youwillhaveanaccesstoyouraccountandseeapagelikethis:

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