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  • Introduction

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    Overall, the written expression course gives students knowledge and practice in writing for a variety of purposes. For example, models or examples are frequently provided for each course lecture to aid students in improving their academic writing abilities. Students are also given access to a range of writing assignments, and the process of producing the final product is taken into account. It is recommended that students carefully draft and edit their writing for each lecture, as well as discuss and compare parts of their work.

  • Contact Card

    Contact card of the module: Written Expression (W.E)

    Faculty: Letters and Foreign Languages

    Department: English Department 

    Level of Students: Third year License

    Academic Year: 2023-2024  

    Semester: First Semester & Second Semester 

    Coefficient: 01 

    Teaching Time: 1h30 

    Duration: 30 Weeks

    Evaluation: Continuous Evaluation(TD)

    Teacher: Chahrazad Hamouma 

    Professional Email: chahrazad.hamouma@univ-msila.dz

  • Objectives

    All that you should be able to accomplish by the end of this course are called objectives. These goals will direct you as you go through the course contents, assist you with self-evaluation, and point out areas in which your writing habits require improvement. At the completion of the course, you should be able to:
    • Understand some of the fundamentals of academic writing.
    • Recognize the characteristics of various writing forms, such as expository, argumentative, descriptive, and narrative essays, reports, critiques, literary analysis essays, letters, and so forth.
    • Put what you have learned about the technical aspects of the various writing types above into practice.
    • Try the practice tasks that will allow you to exhibit your newly gained abilities on various forms of writing.
           

  • Course Contents

    1.     Introduction to Academic Style

    2.     Considerations in Academic writing (Audience/organization/Purpose/flow)

    3.     Paragraph Writing

    4.     Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Quoting Techniques

    5.     Introduction to Essay

    6.     Argumentative Essay

    7.     Expository Essay

    8.     Letter Writing

    9.     Critique Writing

    10.    Writing a Literary Analysis Essay

    11.     Writing a research report



  • Evaluation

    This course is based on continuous evaluation.

  • Target Audience

    Third Year License Students in the English Department of Mohamed Boudiaf University of M'sila.

  • G1.G2.G.3.G4.G5.G6

  • S5_Lecture One: Introduction to academic writing

    Academic writing is characterized as quite structured, formal, impersonal and wordy. If a writer uses the wrong level of formality or informality for a particular context, it is immediately obvious and will result in less successful communication. For example, in the case of academic writing, informal language would make the writing sound like the content is only anecdote and impression rather than the synthesis of research, analysis and critical thinking. Through this lecture, students are expected to have an idea about the features of academic writing.

  • S5_Lecture Two: Considerations in academic writing

    Having a clear sense of audience, purpose, organization, style, flow and presentation considerations is important for becoming a good writer in your field or discipline.The focus of this lecture is to help you learn effectively these writing aspects.


  • S5_Lecture Three: Paragraph writing

    We shall introduce you to the elements that go into the organization of a good paragraph, such as:

    (i) the topic sentence

    (ii) the development of the topic

    (iii) connection between the sentences

    (iv) the use of transitional devices


  • S5_Lecture Four: Summarizing, paraphrasing & quoting techniques

    The work of other writers can provide you with information, evidence and ideas, but must be incorporated into your work carefully. Quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing are different techniques which can help you in including the works of others in your assignments

  • S5_Lecture Five: Introduction to essay writing

    The aim of this lecture is to inform students about the structure of essay and its different types and help them in a systematic manner write effective essays.


  • S6_Lecture Six: Letter writing

    Letters are a well-organized text in form and content which generally follow a pattern that is similar to basic composition writing.

    In this lecture, students are supposed to learn how to write different types of formal letters.


  • S6_Lecture Seven: Critique writing

    This lecture aims to help you write effective critiques. We shall introduce you to the organization and steps that should be taken for writing good critiques.


  • S6_Lecture Eight: Literary analysis essay

  • S6_Lecture Nine: Report writing

  • References

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    Bowker, N. (2007). Academic writing: a guide to tertiary level writing. New Zealand Massey University. Student Learning Development Services

    Jordan, R. R. (1999). Academic writing course: Study skills in English. Harlow, UK: Longman.

    Lax, J. (2002). Academic writing for international graduate students. In 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education (Vol. 2, pp. F3H-F3H). IEEE.

    Mewburn, L, Firth, K, Lehmann, S (2019). How to fix your academic writing trouble: A practical guide. Open University Press, London. 

    Swales, J. M., Feak, C. B. (2012). Academic writing for graduate students: essential tasks and skills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

    Zemach, D. E., & Rumisek, L. A. (2003). College writing from paragraph to essay. Oxford: Macmillan.