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0:59 hello everybody body welcome to the Calin University's reading and writing course very nice to meet you I am Professor junice Lee who will be teaching this course for this semester students who have taken other courses from me in the past probably know that this orientation lecture is very very important in order to successfully taking my
1:45 course therefore please make sure that you thoroughly understand the content of this lecture without exception so that you will not suffer any disadvantages in receiving your credits so let's first look at why academic writing is important and why you should learn it and then we will look at the detail requirements one by one from next slide
2:38 okay first let's look at the course description to on a college degree all students must demonstrate an ability to write well why well put simply because writing is essential to learning across disciplines Scholars teachers and students they all right okay they all
3:23 right to explore differing points of view and Advanced knowledge and share their discoveries so writing is not only a channel through which we communicate ideas it is also a tool we can use to process information and think more clearly learning to write well is not an overnight process rather it is a developmental
4:10 process that occurs over time improving with constant practice both in writing and reading and writing well does not mean simply following r written conventions rather it is a skill grounded in the cognitive domain encompassing creative inspiration problem solving reflection and revision all skills used
4:56 extensively all skills is used extensively across any academic curriculum and in any workplace However unfortunately despite the importance of writing and the need for good writers in all disciplines still many students enter undergraduate programs and into the workplace without the writing skills needed for their success in these places additionally many new students and
5:41 graduates lack the ability to critically assess the writing of others which is a skill that is especially important in graduate and professional programs reading and writing course is an intensive course structured to help you become College ready writers so this course is designed to
6:27 build your confidence and knowledge of how to plan how to write and how to edit various examples of practical and academic writing pieces this course will broaden your practical written English understanding and KN how through a varet variety of topics and topic specific vocabulary and explicitly demonstrated Gramma and writing
7:13 skills also this course will be particularly useful for students who use English in their everyday lives whether in professional or personal context as well as those Desiring to communicate with English speakers in writing this course is very accessible to students at an intermediate or advanced level of English ability who wish to improve their practical writing skills
8:03 so this reading and writing course builds a solid foundation around core aspects of the writing process that is critical reading and methodical writing and research and documentation and practical grammar and punctuation so in conclusion this course also introduces core principles for college success that helps students understand and develop good habits to improve their
8:49 performance in this and other collegey courses so in conclusion this course focuses on helping students identify and apply foundational Concepts and skills in reading and writing especially okay okay that's the course description and next let's look at our course objectives
9:35 if you complete this course with good preparation and active participation you will have familiarized familiarized yourselves you will have familiarized yourselves with a wide variety of writing styles and topics that are written precisely and concisely by professional writers and also you will demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking skills especially in the analysis and evaluation and revision of
10:22 arguments and opinions and claims the main objective for students is to be able to confidently write and edit various types of practical and academic written English uh our secondary objectives for this course include increasing students topic specific English vocabulary and demonstrating aurate grammar and punctuation in
11:09 writing so if you took the course successfully with good preparation your learning outcomes will be as follows however the content assignments and assessment for this course are aligned to the learning outcomes okay as follows first success skills in this unit we focus Define and
11:55 evaluate College Success skills so we identify and practice habits for success and we identify and apply critical thinking skills that means if we see these skills as our outcomes after complete this course successfully you will be able to identify and practice habits for success and you will be identify you will be able to identify and to apply critical thinking skills okay so
12:43 please understand in both ways okay we focus these skills and your learning outcomes with be these skills okay so analyze time management practices and Define successful approaches toward College Revel writing tasks and apply word processing skills to college writing tasks okay and second we we focus critical reading skills okay identify critical reading strategies especially so we identify and
13:29 differentiate between different types of texts and identify reading strategies for academic texts and identify specialized reading strategies for specific types of texts including content in disciplines and visual information and identify techniques for strengthening vocabulary and identify thisis statements in text and identify supporting claims in text and identify logic and structure in text and identify summary strategies for
14:15 reading comprehension next we focus writing process the approach writing as a process in this unit in this section we identify Tock selection activities and we identify prewriting activities identify activities to find evidence in support of a claim and we also identify essay organizational techniques and drafting activities and revision activities and proof reading activities okay
15:00 and next we focus research process okay so identify the components of the research process so through this section we identify preliminary intermediate and advanced search techniques and we identify methods of analysis to assess the quality and reliability of a source and we identify issues of plagiarism and academic dis honesty this is critical crucially crucially important and identify MLA document
15:50 formatting and citation practices so finally we move on to grammar skills and we identify patterns of academic grammar and usage so we identify the function of nouns and different known types we identify the function and structures of pronoun and we identify verb types and their correction conjugation and identify adjectives adverbs and the differences between the two okay
16:36 so again the content and all assignments and assessments for disc course are aligned to the learning outcomes as follows however the contents contents may be changed in real situation okay slightly okay yeah let's keep going in grammar section we identify the function other parts of speech including conjunctions prepositions and articles and we
17:22 identify common punctuation marks and the rules for the correct usage and I identify common sentence sentence types and common error in sentence composition and we identify the active and passive voices as well as the reason to use both okay so let's introduce our textbook for this course our textbook is basic reading and writing by Luma learning in conjunction with cus
18:08 college so I will provide the link to download this textbook okay through our group chat room so please download uh yeah and be ready for taking this course and second textbook is academic writing okay a handbook for international students Third Edition by stepan Bailey year 2011 okay and
18:53 sub supplementary material is thinking critically 10th edition by Jun cha was was by Sage learning year 2012 okay okay um I think we' better to take a pause here and continue the lesson from the next video so please have a quick pick break okay then okay I will come back next video
