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Course Name	Turkish	English I
	English	English I : Basics of Academic Writing
Course Code	ING 101	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Nergis Perçinel Nergis Perçinel
Course Objectives		ING 101 is a 3-credit pool course that ITU students have to take during their first year in faculty. The Advanced English courses (ING 101, 102, 103 and 201), which have been taught at the university since 1997, aim to equip students with the scientific and academic English skills that they will need in their chosen fields. General essay writing skills and technical English are taught in ING 101. ITU students are frequently expected to produce written responses in their exams, reports and theses and as some deficiencies have been noticed in this field, the ING 101 course hopes to address this need. All ITU students who score 60-74 in the proficiency exam take ING 101.
Course Description		This course is designed to enable the students produce written work encompassing definition paragraphs, descriptions (of a mechanism and of a process), and classification essays, all maintaining unity and coherence. In order to provide students with adequate language input and equip them with necessary insights into various aspects of academic writing, the English 101 course has been designed as a course integrating listening and note-taking, reading and writing skills, all leading to a written output. At the end of this course students will have improved their: 1. Listening and note-taking skills: getting the gist of the lecture, differentiating the necessary information from the nonessential part, using short forms and abbreviations 2. Reading skills: skimming; finding main ideas; eliciting information; drawing conclusions, and building up content- based vocabulary 3. Writing skills: writing clear and efficient pieces of descriptive writing to communicate specific and factual information to a defined audience for a defined purpose.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course satisfactorily can: 1. differentiate the main points of a lecture or reading passage and take notes 2. define an object or concept 3. get the gist of the reading, find the key words and guess their meanings 4. describe an object or mechanism 5. write a paragraph (and then an essay) in line with the principles of unity and coherence 6. describe a process step by step, interpret flowcharts, and write about the process illustrated 7. organize a piece of academic writing (thesis statement, body paragraphs, etc.) and prepare an outline 8. classify a general topic into its subcategories according to a relevant basis 9. research, brainstorm, and classify science and engineering related topics 10. write classification essays based on sources, not on opinion, using academic tone
Pre-requisite(s)		Students who pass the Prep Proficiency Exam with 60-74 take this course.
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Textbook
Other References		Brieger, N. & Comfort, J., 2000, Technical Contacts. James K., Jordan R., Matthews A.J., 1998, Listening Comprehension & Note-taking, Collins ELT: London. Johnson, K., 1991, Communicate in Writing, Longman. Michal H. Markel, 1992, Technical Writing: Situations and Strategies, St. Martin’s Press: New York. Shelton, J.H., 1998, Elements of Technical Writing, NTC Business Books. Vince, M., 1994, Advanced language practice, Heinemann.

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