ING 201 - Research Writing Skills
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
English 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.
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Course Coordinator
Tımothy George Eastlake Davıs
Course Language
English
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