Course Description
The course aims to empower and develop students’ writing skills and communicative competence in order for themto communicate fluently, appropriately, and effectively in their academic life and their personal and social interactions.
It is a required course designed in order to facilitate maximum student involvement and interaction. Students will work together in groups for brainstorming, organizing, analyzing critically, editing individually and using peer correcting. This will render academic writing a popular and a cooperative process.
The course develops academic writing using a process-oriented approach. It follows smooth gradation since writing is a developmental process. Students start from the sentence, the building block of writing, to the paragraph, to the essay and then the report. Unlike the traditional manner, grammatical features are isolated quoting students’ own work to cement those features. Text coherence and cohesion are also stressed.