UB00302

READING AND WRITING IN ENGLISH

SEMESTER 1 2014/2015
Credit Hours

2 hours

Contact Hours

3 hours

Synopsis
This course aims to familiarize students to the reading and writing skills and to
introduce them to the types of genre in writing.
They will apply the skills of skimming and scanning in reading passages, learn how
to infer and paraphrase information from any given passages, and learn to
identify and differentiate main ideas and supporting details of a passage.
In addition, students will be taught how to develop a clear presentation of ideas in
an essay.
Among the aspects of writing that they will learn are the writing process, basic
organization of a typical five-paragraph essay, important elements in an essay
such as thesis statement, topic sentences and supporting ideas which they will
utilize when they learn the different types of genre in writing.

Assessment Methods and Types:

Formative and Summative

Percentage

Assessment Components

Essay:
a) Draft

10

b) Final essay

20

Reading test

20

Writing test

20

Literature Circles:
a) Online Discussion

15

b) Group Portfolio

15
TOTAL

100

DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENTS
1. LITERATURE CIRCLES (30%)
Online Discussion (15%):
A group of 5 students will agree on an essay or report related to their field.

Students will then assign themselves with these roles:

a) Discussion Director

d) Summarizer

b) Passage Master

e) Mind- mapper

c) Word Wizard

Each group will do their discussion via Facebook (in own created Facebook Group) based on their own roles.
Each group will do this for three rounds with three different texts and rotation of roles.
Group Portfolio (15%):
Compile the research articles, role sheets, discussion traits from Facebook and individual reflection sheets
from all the three rounds of LCs.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENTS
2.

ESSAY (30%)
Draft (10%)
Final Written Essay (20%)

3. READING TEST (20%):

To test students with different genre of texts and questions on
comprehension and all other reading skills taught in the course.
4. WRITING TEST (20%):
To test students with the processes of essay writing and all other
writing skills taught in the course..

Textbook and References :

1. McVeigh, J. & Bixby, J. (2011). Q: Skills for Success, Reading and Writing
Book 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Lee, K. C. et. al. (2007). Effective College Writing: A Process-Genre
Approach. Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education Asia.
3. Oshima, A & Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English (Fourth Edition).
NY: Pearson Education Inc.

4. Citing sources: APA and MLA Format :

http://www1.umassd.edu/specialprograms/info_lit/cite.html
5. Referencing academic tip sheet:
http://www.ecu.edu.au/CLT/tips/docs/referencing.pdf
6. Harvard (author-date) style examples:
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/harvard.html