2023/2024
The Basics of Critical Reading and Academic Writing
Type:
Optional course (faculty)
Delivered by:
School of Philological Studies
When:
3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course develops and refines academic English skills of those students who specialize in Arts and Humanities. By combining the basics of academic style, punctuation, and grammar with critical reading and academic writing, this course enables students to gain an awareness and understanding of the key features of writing about research. In particular, the course focuses on the genre of an academic review and its conventions; by the end of the course, students will be able to write a good academic review essay. Pre-requisites: to fulfill the requirements of the course students need to have a good command of written and spoken English (required CEFR language proficiency level is from upper-intermediate (B2) to advanced (C1)).