Students will be evaluated on the basis on regular attendance, successful completion of assignments, tests, and video work. Writing for Academic Purposes. Permission of instructor. May be repeated for a total of 2 credits. This course is designed for non-native graduate and undergraduate students who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University, but who need to improve their writing skills to perform successfully in academic work.
Class meetings are once a week for ninety minutes.
There is instruction and practice in the writing of a range of texts for specific purposes, e.g., extended definitions, descriptions of processes, data commentaries, literature reviews. Grades are based on regular attendance, successful completion of specified writing assignments, and satisfactory performance on a final evaluation task. It is designed to provide students with a sound theoretical and practical basis for language teaching. An additional emphasis of this course is on construction, administration, and scoring of various language tests. The relevance of classroom testing to classroom teaching will be highlighted.