Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	İngilizce I
	English	English I
Course Code	ING 112	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Nilüfer Ülker
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; teaches them to write academic essays in terms of both content and organization. Reading skills: 1. Speed/timed reading, 2. Identifying the main points, 3. Analyzing the view and the tone of the text, 4. Finding and interrelating relevant information, 5. Distinguishing between general and specific information, , 6. Identifying for and against points and eliciting arguments, 7. Eliciting topic related/key words, 8. Enhancing academic vocabulary Writing skills: 1. Note taking, 2. Summarizing, 3. Organizing ideas and grouping them 4. Outlining, 5. Writing thesis statements and topic sentences, 6. Writing argumentative essays following a certain format, 7. Supporting the main points in the essay with findings from outside sources, 8. Using academic tone, genre language and appropriate transition signals. Speaking Skills: 1. Carrying out in-class group work 2. Convening for brainstorming about a certain topic 3. Participating in a debate on a certain topic
Course Description		The students of English 112 course improve their efficient reading techniques, learn to analyze outside sources and elicit proper information, develop their critical thinking skills and go through the processes of reading and analyzing texts, planning, drafting and editing. Students working on text exploration and academic writing simultaneously produce argumentative essay both in their homework assignments and their exams. Besides, they participate in the in-class discussions of the reading materials.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course satisfactorily can: 1.Identify the main points and analyze the view and the tone of the text 2.Elicit relevant information from an outside source to support their ideas 3.Follow the academic writing rules and support their ideas in their writing via referring to an outside source 4.Organize a piece of academic writing (thesis statement, body paragraphs, etc.) and prepare an outline 5.Organize and carry on debates on controversial topics 6.Use the relevant vocabulary and structures related to argumentative genre 7.Write an argumentative essay on a certain topic 8.Evaluate an academic text
Pre-requisite(s)		Passing the ITU School of Foreign Languages English Preparatory School Proficiency Exam with 60-84
Required Facilities
Other		ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ADVANCED ENGLISH PROGRAM ING 112 COURSE RULES 1. According to ITU regulations, students cannot miss more than 12 hours in total. 2. Students who are more than 10 minutes late for a lesson are marked absent for that hour. 3. Assignments must be submitted on the day they are due. No late assignments are accepted. 4. Students who cannot attend the midterm or the final exam due to a valid reason can take the make-up exam only if their reason / health reports are accepted by the Administrative Board Faculty. 5. If a student is found to have plagiarized, he/she will receive zero for that assignment. (For more information, refer to http://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/tr/ yonetmelik/lisansyonetmelik.html) 6. All students are required to follow the announcements related to the course on YDY webpage and Ninova. 7. Students are required to buy the original copy of the coursebook.
Textbook		Academic Writing Framework
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