Program Overview

ES5001A - Graduate English II

Description

ES5001A is tailored for postgraduate students who have foundational academic reading, writing, and speaking skills. This course aims to enhance students’ academic literacies, nurture students’ authorial voice, foster higher-order thinking skills, and promote academic integrity in the age of generative AI through process and genre-based instructional methods. Specifically, students will learn to use language accurately and appropriately to express meaning in context as well as cultivate skills designed to strengthen their academic writing and oral presentation within and beyond their disciplines.

Objectives

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Enhance academic literacies and employ appropriate academic language in developing ideas, organising arguments, and taking stances
2. Employ an integrated reading-writing approach to read, analyse, and synthesise multiple sources of information
3. Convey ideas with a strong authorial voice in different types of academic writing
4. Evaluate and critique source information
5. Present technical and evidence-based content to a cross-disciplinary audience

Assessment

• Continuous Assessment 100%

Prerequisites

• To be admitted to this course, students must have taken the Diagnostic English Test and received a ‘Band 2’, or passed ES5000 Graduate English I, if required to do so.

Preclusions

• Graduate students who have gotten 'Band 3' for the Diagnostic English Test.

Units

Nil

Workload

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