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 doctoral learners with effective scholarly writing competence as well as their communication skills. This module is intended help scholarly-practitioners to 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 the doctoral learners acquire appreciable narrative and paraphrasing and summary skills. Therefore, learners shall be required to review some selected scholarly articles and stories 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