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Course Name
Turkish Akademik Yazının Temelleri
English Basics of Academic Writing
Course Code
ING 112A Credit Lecture
(hour/week)
Recitation
(hour/week)
Laboratory
(hour/week)
Semester -
2 2 - -
Course Language Turkish
Course Coordinator Nurçin Ramadanoğlu
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, analyze the view and the tone of the text, and
distinguish the general information from the specific one
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 by
referring to an outside source using direct quoting, paraphrasing, and
summarising methods and applying APA in-text citation rules
4. Organize a text of academic writing (thesis statement, body paragraphs, etc.)
and prepare an outline
5. Organize and participate in debates on controversial topics
6. Use the relevant vocabulary and structures related to argumentative genre
7. Write an argumentative essay of minimum 500 words on a certain topic,
avoiding plagiarism and meeing the requirements of academic integrity.
8. Evaluate an academic text
Pre-requisite(s) Passing the ITU School of Foreign Languages English Preparatory School Proficiency Exam with a score of 75 and above score or passing the ING 100 course with a minimum DD.
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