İDE200A

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Compulsory

English

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English Language and Literature Undergraduate Program

In this course, students will learn all the steps of the academic article writing process (reading texts closely, developing arguments/theses, structuring arguments, summarizing, revising and regulation).

McGraw-Hill's Concise Guide to Writing (2010)
Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell - Patterns for College Writing, Brief Edition A Rhetorical Reader and
Guide-Bedford St. Martin's (2015)
Helen Sword - Stylish Academic Writing-Harvard University Press (2012)

This course aims to teach and enable students to do four things aims at: close reading, critical discussion (about literature and culture), research and writing an academic paper.

1. Critically and objectively evaluate and analyze texts, information and sources
2. Put forward and articulate arguments with academic/scientific logic; Academic research and writing develop writing skills
3. Develop active, dynamic and close reading skills
4. Important and critical ask questions and develop convincing answers to these complex questions
5. Summarize and paraphrase to develop their skills

Week 1: Introduction/What is a research paper? How can it be thought critically?
Week 2: How to choose a topic/How to narrow the topic
Week 3: How to avoid errors of judgment
Week 4: Mapping Arguments/Writing a thesis statement
Week 5: Designing a paragraph/Organized writing
Week 6: Paragraph design / Writing by organizing
Week 7: Conducting research/Research strategies/Preparing a bibliography of studies
Week 8: Conducting research/Research strategies/Preparing a bibliography of studies
Week 9: Documenting/citing sources/What is plagiarism and how to prevent it?
Week 10: Preparing a draft plan/Mapping the Experiment
Week 11: Style Guide/MLA/Cited Works/Dipnotes and/or Endnotes
Week 12: Draft / Style / Revision and Correction / Finalizing the Text