ENG 102 COURSE

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ENG 102 COURSE

• Learner centered
• Integrated-skills based
• Theme-based Justice/ Injustice
• Process-approach

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Objectives

• use of language structures, vocabulary
  discourse markers in writing
• process writing approach
• concepts of genre, purpose, audience, discourse
  pattern, register and style in writing
• organization, unity and coherence in writing

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Objectives

• synthesizing information from various sources by
  quoting and paraphrasing
• summarizing texts
• research skills
• critical thinking skills

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Objectives

• reading comprehension skills
• inferencing skills
• evaluating information in reading texts
• listening for main and specific information
• initiating and maintaining discussions

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK

• Theme Justice

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UNIT 1

• Awareness-raising Multi-genre activity

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Unit 2

1st Product A documented essay on
justice/injustice (see task on p.66).
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Unit 3
INTRODUCTION TO THE ACADEMIC PAPER Stage1
Students start looking for possible topics,
choose a topic, start doing their research and
receive feedback. Stage 2 Students write their
research question(s) and receive feedback.      
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Unit 4
Stage 3 Students prepare their documentation
forms, outlines, and write their introduction and
literature review of the academic paper and
receive feedback.
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Unit 5
Stage 4 Students prepare their documentation
forms, outlines and they write the argumentation
part of the academic paper and receive feedback
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• THE PRODUCTS
• TASK 1 ACADEMIC ESSAY
• TASK 2 ACADEMIC PAPER

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• TASK 1 THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
• Product of Unit 2
• A documented essay based on a reading pack
• The broad topic is Justice Injustice
• Around 800 words
• The aims
• To give them practice in writing a full
  documented academic essay
• To warm up students
• To get students to brainstorm on the topic for
  their later extended piece of work

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• The Task
• Reading packs will be used as materials to be
  cited
• An argumentative or expository essay
• Process
• Sts choose their reading pack
• Vocabulary quiz
• Documentation form
• Outline
• First Draft
• Final Draft
• !!! All stages of the process to be assessed

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• TASK 2 THE ACADEMIC PAPER
• 40 of their final grade
• 2000-2500 words
• The product of Units 3, 4 and 5
• Feedback at each and every stage
• A sample paper in Unit 4 and 5 and one in App.6
• !!! All stages of the process to be assessed

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• The Task
• Has two main parts
• part 1 a review of literature on a topic
  about justice/injustice, 750 to 1000 words
• part 2 argumentation which requires Sts to
  take a stand on the same topic and to persuade
  audience on the validity of it, 750 to 1000 words
• an introduction and a conclusion (each
  around 200 words)

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• Why this task?
• A more real-life task (one first does research
  and then forms an opinion regarding the topic),
  more meaningful
• Sts will exercise the two most common types of
  discourse in the academic writing in the same
  paper
• Sts will do research once and write the
  informative and persuasive parts of the essay
  depending on the same research
• More like process-writing, they will work on the
  same topic throughout the semester and learn
  about a topic in depth

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• The Academic Paper
• I. Introduction
• Introduce the subject
• Give background to the subject and mention what
  we know about the topic already and what is not
  known yet
• State the research question explicitly

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• II. A Review of Literature
• Identify arguments of the previous studies on the
  subject in question, i.e. how the question has
  been answered by different authorities
• Create several categories and put the arguments
  of previous studies into these categories (e.g.
  those in support of a particular position, those
  against, and those offering alternative
  solutions.)
• Explain how each opinion/answer is similar to and
  how it varies from others.
• Evaluate these sources in terms of the extent of
  their contribution to the understanding and
  development of the area of research.

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• III. Argumentation
• The first paragraph will be a transition
  between the review of literature and
  argumentation. It should have a clear
  argumentative thesis statement,
  which should state the stance taken.
• Try to convince audience that the
  argument is right. To do this, there should be
  counter arguments, which must be refuted
  effectively.

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• IV. Conclusion
• Restate the research question and the most
  significant findings in the literature.
• Restate your argumentative thesis statement and
  your main supports.
• Make use of one or more conclusion techniques,
  e.g. recommending a course of action, warning, or
  making a prediction etc.

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Point Allocation

• Academic Essay 20 (10 product 10 process)
• Midterm 25
• Academic Paper 40 (20 product
• 20 process)
• Class work 5 (participation written tasks)
• Speaking 5
• Vocab. quiz(es) 5

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Have a nice semester!