Course Description
This course provides an opportunity for students to develop and nurture the skills for academic writing. It is an intensive analysis of the principles of academic writing aimed at equipping learners with effective scholarly writing competence as well as their communication skills. This module is intended help learners write clearly, logically, comprehensively and structurally appropriate. It introduces writing as a way of developing, exploring and testing ideas. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, grammar, usage and mechanics (GUM), referencing, good paragraph development, essay and report writing. The course is also expected to help learners acquire appreciable narrative and paraphrasing and summary skills. ; Therefore, learners shall be required to read selection of short stories and summarize some of them as part of the course. The course shall engage learners in critical academic discourse, drawing from journal articles, textbooks and videos.
COURSE OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, learners shall be able to:
- Write acceptable academic reports.
- Organize their ideas coherently and
clearly in paragraphs.
- Apply citations and references in academic
writing.
- Summarize a given passage by extracting
the relevant information from it.
- Demonstrate effective summary skills in
report writing
- Apply critical thinking in scholarly writing
- Explain the types of report
- Develop good thesis statements
- Demonstrate the ability to present data using graphics