ING 201 - English III

Course Objectives

1. Improve students’ reading and writing skills as well as evaluating and interpreting written information
2. Improve students’ technical vocabulary
3. Create awareness of sound, scholarly sources
4. Enhance knowledge about a specific subject related to their department
5. Enable awareness and application of the research process by conforming to the conventions of academic life and adhering to the norms of research ethics

Course Description

nglish 201 is a course designed to teach the organizational and critical thinking skills necessary for logical written expression. The course focuses on writing a research paper of at least 3000 words based on sound scholarly sources on a topic of interest related to a student’s field by conforming to the APA standards of writing without committing plagiarism. In this course the whole research process is taught step by step through skills including research, source selection, choice of topic, construction and defense of a thesis statement, citing sources, outlining, organizing a “References” page and note taking. Critical elements of the course are instruction in paraphrasing and summarizing techniques, use of quotations and the incorporation of these research findings in the paper together with the inclusion of personal comments, avoidance of plagiarism and conforming to ethical rules.