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Writing for Academic Success 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.
The course relies on both lectures and tutorials that function with a workshop mode of delivery, with small class size for the latter enabling students to receive individual guidance and to participate fully in intensive reading and writing assignments, class discussions and peer response workshops. These activities will help students learn the processes of evaluating data, identifying and interpreting patterns of logic, and persuasively arguing for the significance of those interpretations. Though it draws on rhetorical and critical skills that are central to the study of English, its content and method are accessible and appropriate to students from all of the Colleges.
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 produce a formal document, edited and proofread, that adheres to the standard mechanics of grammar and spelling.
ENGL117
For further information see Humanities Head of Department
There is no final exam in this course.
Required Text• Hacker, Diana; The Bedford Handbook (8th Edition, 2010). (Available from U.B.S.)(NOTE: While the library has copies of this text available for both 3-hour and 3-day loan, these are earlier editions and it is a required text so we recommend that you purchase your own copy from the University Book Store. This text will prove useful throughout your time at university.)Course readings will also be available on Learn.(Image: "365::15-write" by Sarah Reld. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.)
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Domestic fee $732.00
International fee $2,975.00
* 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.
For further information see Humanities .