COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ENG 401	B	1	3	0	0	3	7.5

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Main Course Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Dr. Isa Erbaş ierbas@epoka.edu.al
Second Course Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Compulsory
Study program: (the study for which this course is offered)	Professional Master in Political Science and International Relations
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Code of Ethics:	Code of Ethics of EPOKA University Regulation of EPOKA University "On Student Discipline"
Attendance Requirement:
Course Description:	The course is designed to prepare master’s level students to read critically and efficiently and equip them with the writing skills for academic literature reviews and articles. Towards this goal, students read and critically discuss scholarly articles and books, analyzing the structure, ideas,and language of each. Proper use of sources is emphasized in this course. Students review writing norms in the social sciences, and work on developing appropriate vocabulary, sentence structures, paragraphs, and the language for an academic article, including titles, abstracts, introductions, literature reviews, methods, results, discussion, and reference sections. Spoken English is practiced in discussions and presentations.
Course Objectives:

BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE COURSE

1	The course of Development of Reading and Writing Skills in English I is built upon the needs of assessment analysis.
2	It is built to improve the students ability in academic writing and reading
3	It is based on a competence-oriented syllabus and learner-centered classroom
4	It is built to enable the students to analyze and interpret reading passages

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing for graduate studies
2	How should a paragraph be constructed?
3	Writing process: Generating ideas and drafting
4	Writing process: Revising
5	Writing process: Editing
6	What is a research?
7	Mid-term exam
8	Research Questions, Problem Statement, Literature review
9	Plagiarism, Citation: summarizing, paraphrasing, quotation, referencing
10	How to write an academic paper: Introduction, Methodology
11	How to write an academic paper: Result, Discussion and Abstract
12	Research proposal for the master thesis
13	Presentation of the students research paper
14	Presentation of the students research paper

Prerequisite(s):	Cambridge International AS and A-Level. English Language. Mike Gould and Marilyn Rankin. Cambridge University Press, 2014
Textbook(s):
Additional Literature:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	The students will be able to enhance their vocabulary and linguistic patterns on English for Academic Purposes
2	The students will be able to differentiate types of sentences and paragraphs.
3	The students will be able to learn different types of writing.
4	The students will be able to build up convincing arguments and express them effectively both in written and verbal forms
5	The students will be able to develop reading and writing skills in an analytical way
6	The students will be able to write an academic paper
7	The students will be able to learn how to write a thesis

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Professional Master in Political Science and International Relations Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	1	10
Midterm Exam(s)	1	25
Project	1	15
Term Paper	1	40
Attendance		10
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	5	80
Mid-terms	1	20	20
Assignments	1	9.5	9.5
Final examination	1	30	30
Other			0
Total Work Load:			187.5
Total Work Load/25(h):			7.5
ECTS Credit of the Course:			7.5

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE COURSE LECTURER

This course will help the students learn how to write an academic paper and thesis.