Academic Writing. Advanced English

2022/2023

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

HSE/NES Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support

Course type:

Elective course

When:

3 year, 1, 2 module

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.