This course is intended for students who have acquired the basic competency in English communication and who are in the process of learning to apply what they have learned in the general English courses to their academic studies and research in the university. Therefore, this course focuses on the training of students' academic reading and writing skills so that they can fulfill the reading and writing requirements for their subject studies.
The course consists of two parts, one focusing on reading and the other on writing, each taking up one semester. In each part of the course, there will be a series of sessions that introduce various academic reading and writing strategies, plus an opening session at the beginning of each semester and a session for student presentations at the end of the semester.
修读本课程的学生起点英语能力应达到《大学英语课程教学要求》一般要求水平。
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Unit 1
1 Introduction to the Course
2 The Reading Process
3 Academic Reading
Unit 2
1 Skimming
2 Scanning
3 Identifying main ideas
Unit 3
1 Distinguishing Main Ideas and Details
2 Referencing
3 Dealing with unfamiliar words
Unit 4
1 Higher Order Reading Strategies
2 Identifying Author's Purpose
3 Predicting
Unit 5
1 Using Prior Knowledge
2 Inferencing-1
3 Inferencing-2
Unit 6
1 Rhetorical Patterns-1 (Narration, Description & Process)
2 Checking Predictions
3 Global Understanding
Unit 7
1 Rhetorical Patterns-2 (Enumeration & Exemplification)
2 Distinguishing Facts from Opinions
3 Drawing Conclusions
Unit 8
1 Rhetorical Patterns-3 (Comparison & Contrast)
2 Evaluating Arguments
3 Reading with Questions
Unit 9
1 Rhetorical Patterns-4 (Cause & Effect)
2 Determining Audience, Purpose & Tone
3 Recognizing & Making Generalizations
Unit 10
1 Rhetorical Patterns-5 (Definition & Classification)
2 Outlining
Unit 11
1 Working with Tables, Graphs and Figures