Academic Writing. Advanced English

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

6

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Отдел сопровождения учебного процесса в Совместном бакалавриате ВШЭ-РЭШ

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

On television, in the newspaper, and on the internet, arguments are all around us. We make arguments when we speak to our instructors, our parents, our friends. We encounter them when we read signs on the highway or consult our favorite popular culture blog. Arguments—speech acts designed to persuade—are at the core of human communication, though many of us never think about understanding how to interpret and produce them as essential skills for developing literacy and fluency. Advanced College Writing is designed for students at an advanced level of English language study who wish to have a firmer grounding in writing before proceeding to content courses where more highly developed writing skills are required. Though continuing to build English language fluency is a goal for this course, at its heart, this is a course in argumentation grounded in both classical and modern rhetorical theory.

Learning Objectives

• The aim of the course is to help you develop the skills necessary to understand, break down, and critique someone else’s argument while also helping you develop a process for constructing and presenting your own ideas in a persuasive form.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Formulate an interesting research question Locate, evaluate, and cite sources in the scholarly, journalistic, and popular domains
• Upon completion of this course, students should have progressed in their ability to analyze the arguments of others with reference to basic rhetorical principles, such as logos, ethos, and pathos, argument types, and rhetorical fallacies.• Deliver an argument-driven presentation in English
• Write in common academic genres such as the proposal and the literature review Write well-organized, argument-driven papers that demonstrate awareness of exigency and audience and deploy appropriate modes of persuasion Identify and correct common grammar and vocabulary mistakes in English Revise in response to feedback from peer readers as well as the instructor Participate in oral discussion and debate in English, though, it should be stressed, this is not predominantly a speaking course

Course Contents

• Finding and Understanding Arguments
• Analyzing Arguments
• Making Arguments

Assessment Elements

• Short Essays
  15%
• Formal Debate
  10%
• Prospectus, Final Draft
  15%
• Critical Essay, First Draft
  10%
• Video Script, First Draft
  10%
• Final Video Presentation
  25%

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  Short Essays – 15% Formal Debate – 10% Prospectus, First Draft - Advisory* Prospectus, Final Draft – 15% (blocking) Critical Essay, First Draft – 10% Critical Essay, Second Draft – 15% (blocking) Video Script, First Draft – 10% Final Video Presentation – 25% (blocking)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing : A Handbook for International Students (Vol. Fourth edition). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=862062
• Bailey, S. (2017). Academic Writing : A Handbook for International Students (Vol. Fifth edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1650435
• Mathilde Janier, & Patrick Saint-Dizier. (2019). Argument Mining : Linguistic Foundations. [N.p.]: Wiley-ISTE. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2274843

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Richard Feldman. (2013). Reason and Argument: Pearson New International Edition. Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1418757
• Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Bickel, B. (2019). Argument Selectors : A New Perspective on Grammatical Relations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2029881