Academic Writing: Get Ready for College
Basic Details
- Title: Academic Writing: Get Ready for College
- Audience: TBC and Non TBC Students
- Eligibility: TBC L3 students and High School Graduates (+2, A levels, etc., any background)
- Registration: Min 20, Max 40 (last weeks of June, July, and August)
- Expected start dates: June 26, 2023; July 24, 2023; and August 21, 2023
- Expected end dates: June 30, 2023; July 28, 2023; and August 25, 2023
- Schedule: 5 times a week of 2-hour session each
- Class Time: 7 AM to 9 AM
- Location: Onsite, TBC Classroom
Course Description
This workshop aims at helping participants learn and improve their academic writing,
critical thinking, and critical reading abilities by providing them with the necessary skills
and practice. The workshop is designed to help students build confidence in writing for
college as it aims to prepare beginner academic writers to handle the basic as well as
more complex tasks of academic writing they might face college.
Join our monthly summer workshop, "Academic Writing: Get Ready for College" and
learn good academic writing practices, develop skills necessary to evaluate sources and
incorporate them in your writing without losing your own voice, and learn to acknowledge
and credit sources correctly.
Learning Objectives of the course:
- Learn the basics of academic writing, good writing practices, referencing and citations
- Develop students' ability to understand and evaluate rhetorical styles and purposes
- Enhance students' ability to understand and evaluate sources and incorporate them in own writing
- Help students express and defend their ideas and opinions in writing in the academic setting
Course Structure
- Day 1: Brief overview of the course, discussion of expectations.
- Discussion: What is academic writing? Why do writing skills matter for success in higher education?
- The writing process: different steps, stages, and approaches
- Pre-writing: brainstorming, mind mapping, outlining, and planning
- Day 2: Citations and referencing
- Discussion on plagiarism and its consequences
- In-text citations, works cited/references/ bibliography
- Discussion: some commonly used styles of citations and referencing in higher education + practice
-
Day 3: Writing for clarity and consistency
- Basics of academic language and formatting, consistency
- Grammatical conventions in academic writing
- Readability: editing, revising, proofreading
- Written vs. verbal communication in the classroom
- Everyday vs. formal language
-
Day 4: Reading and incorporating sources
- Essential reading comprehension skills: understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and communicating
- Rephrasing an idea: summarizing and paraphrasing + practice
- Structured writing: the basic five-paragraph essay and beyond: thesis statement, topic sentences, transitions
-
Day 5: Critical evaluation of sources
- Types of sources: scholarly vs. non-scholarly, different formats and genres
- Evaluation of sources: analysis + practice
- Rhetorical and analytical reading in depth: ethos, logos, pathos + practice
Sessions With
Tutors
An inspiring and educational summer school experience with our featured speaker, a renowned expert in their field.
