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Course Name	Turkish	İngilizce I EMEL ÇAĞLAR
	English	ENGLISH I EMEL ÇAĞLAR
Course Code	ING 102	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Emel Çağlar
Course Objectives		This course aims to enhance students’ reading and writing skills simultaneously, reinforces students perception of the reading-writing link, enabling them to decipher academic texts more efficiently, and teaches them to write academic essays in terms of both content and organization. Reading skills: 1. Speed/timed reading, 2. Identifying main points, 3. Analyzing the view and the tone of the text, 4. Finding and interrelating relevant info, 5. Distinguishing between general and specific info, 6. Identifying causes and effects of a phenomenon, 7. Identifying for and against points and eliciting arguments, 8. Eliciting topic related/key words, 9. Enhancing academic vocabulary Writing skills: 1. Note taking, 2. Summarizing, 3. Organizing ideas via clusters, associations, 4. Outlining, 5. Crafting thesis statements and topic sentences, 6. Writing cause & effect essays vis-à-vis a format, 7. Writing argumentative essays vis-à-vis a format, 8. Supporting the main points in the essay with the findings of text exploration, 9. Using academic tone, genre language and appropriate transition signals.
Course Description		The students of English 101 course improve their study skills (such as efficient reading techniques, eliciting information) and critical thinking skills and go through the processes of reading/researching, planning, drafting and editing. Students working on text exploration and academic writing simultaneously produce academic writing (paragraph or essay) both in their homework assignments and their exams
Course Outcomes		Student, who passed the course satisfactorily can: 1. identify the main points and analyzing the view and the tone of the text 2. find and interrelate relevant information in order to use in their writing 3. write according to academic writing format and support their writing refering to a source 4. read, plan and write about a topic by analyzing a cause and effect relationship 5. use cause /effect vocabulary 6. organize and carry on debates on controvercial topics 7. use the relevant vocabulary and sturctures relevant to argumentative genre 8. evaluate an academic text
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Other		THE INSTRUCTOR OF THE COURSE GIVES AN ORAL EXAM GRADE OF 5% TAKING THE STUDENTS’ ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION INTO ACCOUNT.
Textbook		ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING (COMPILED MATERIAL)
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