英语阅读与写作 (English Reading and Guided Writing)

目标及特色
Course Objectives:
  This intensive course aims to equip students with essential academic writing skills and further enhance their analytical reading ability. The course commences with an introduction of an essay structure and essential reading skills, moving on to cover the most frequently used types of essays, letter writing, and contemporary issues and topics. 

Upon completing the course, students are expected to achieve the following goals:
-to compose a unified and coherent essay to narrate, describe causes & effects, define, and argue
-to make complaints, inquiries and in a letter/email
-to read analytically and critically 
-to further enhance essential academic vocabulary and knowledge of grammatical usages


教学方式
Socratic seminar on reading; lectures on skills and topics; simulation activities; peer review; in-class activities; collaborative writing; one-on-one consultation
Participation : 20%
Assignments & Timed-Writing : 60%
In-class tasks : 20%
Bonus Grade Points : 1-6%


教材
Materials will be prepared by the instructor and distributed in class.

抵免科目：2023年暑期修习「英语听力与口说」与「英语阅读与写作」，修毕且成绩及格者，此两门课程合计可申请抵免大学英文（一），计3学分。