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Writing the Academic Essay fosters the capacity for analytical thought about texts and language. The course also provides training in the writing of clear and effective prose, inculcates awareness of crucial structural and rhetorical features of expository writing, and encourages the application of that awareness to writing in a range of academic and professional contexts.
ENGL117 Writing the Academic Essay fosters the capacity for analytical thought about texts and language; concomitantly, the course provides training in the writing of clear and effective prose. Students will emerge from this course with an awareness of crucial structural and rhetorical features of expository writing. Most importantly, students will emerge from this course prepared to apply that awareness to writing in a range of academic and professional contexts. In order to accomplish these goals, the course relies on intensive reading and writing assignments, class discussions, peer response workshops, and formal oral presentations to help students learn the processes of evaluating data, identifying patterns of logic, interpreting those patterns, and persuasively arguing for the significance of those interpretations. Further, the small size of each tutorial group enables students to receive individual guidance and to participate fully. Though drawing on the rhetorical and analytic techniques that form the skills base of the discipline, this is not an English literature course; its content and method are accessible and appropriate to students from all of the Colleges. Even though this will be a rigorous semester, students will find that the skills they acquire during it will aid them in any career they choose to pursue.
In this course, then, students will learn:to analyse prose, identify and summarise the argument of a text, and critique the argument of a text;to find information, to evaluate evidence and sources, and to manage the intellectual property of others while developing their own ideas;to produce clear writing of their own that is appropriate to a given audience and purpose;to make an oral presentation that offers focused, coherent, well-informed content in a clear, confident, and professional manner;critical listening skills through evaluations of formal oral presentations by their peers;to produce a formal document, edited and proofread, that adheres to the standard mechanics of grammar and spelling.
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Domestic fee $562.00
International fee $2,280.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.
For further information see Humanities .