FAS1101 - Writing Academically: Arts and Social Sciences
Description
This course develops and applies the core strategies that underlie successful academic writing. These include writing with clarity and precision, analysing how authors argue, organizing and expressing ideas to guide readers through a line of reasoning, citing and documenting sources, revising the content, wording, and organization of a paper, as well as surface features such as spelling and punctuation. Students gain an appreciation of the basics of academic writing through three units, which correspond to the three stages of writing - introduction, body, and conclusion.
Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
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Select an essay topic or question
- Paraphrase, summarize and critically report academic material
- Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and contested nature of a chosen topic by a. identifying prominent concepts, positions and ideas b. analysing and evaluating arguments of others, and defending one’s thesis by constructing convincing arguments of one’s own
- Formulate a debatable, significant and specific thesis
- Compose an academic essay which is coherent, clear, concise and grammatically sound with a clear authorial voice
Assessment
- FAS1101 is a 100% Continuous Assessment course.
Prerequisites
Students who are required to read ES1000 Foundation Academic English and/or ES1103 English for Academic Purposes must pass those courses before they are allowed to read this course.
Preclusions
- Non-CHS students
- Students who have read and passed ES1531/GEK1549/GET1021 or ES1501%
- Students who have read and passed ES2531, ES2631, SP1541, UTW1001% and RVX100%
Units
Four
Workload
1-2-0-4-0-3