Abu
Dhabi Men’s College
Course
Delivery Plan
Semester Code: 201320 Department Name: Gen Ed
Course Code: LSC 1103 Course Title:
Academic Reading and Writing 1
Credit Hours: 64
Faculty Name: Gregory Vrhovnik ext #711
email address: gvrhovnik@hct.ac.ae The Boss
For Homework: hct1103.2103@yahoo.com
Week
#
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Date
Week beginning
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Topics/Learning Outcomes
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Additional reading material
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Assessments
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1
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Feb 10
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Introduction to Portfolio
Introduction to top-down reading
techniques (LO1)
Introduction to extracting relevant material for summary writing (LO1) |
On-line materials,
authentic texts
academic texts
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2
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Feb 17
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Summary practice + rewrite (LO1)
Introduction to Bibme (LO3,4)
Introduction to Vocabulary exercises (
LO2)
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Newspaper and magazine articles
Academic texts
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3
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Feb 24
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Summary practice + rewrites for
portfolio
( LO1,4,5)
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As above
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4
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March 3
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Summary practice + rewrite (LO1,4,5)
Vocabulary exercises (LO2)
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Summary
1 (in class)
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5
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March 10
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Vocabulary exercises ( LO2)
Introduce Research Assignment
( LO1,3)
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On-line, papers, magazines, academic
articles
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Summary
2 (in class)
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6
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March 17
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Identifying sources, making notes
( LO1,3,4) Vocabulary quizzes (LO2)
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As above
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Writing
Portfolio
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7
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March 24
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Part 1
Research Assignment
( LO1,3,4,)
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As above
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Section
1 Research Assignment (Portfolio)
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8
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April 14
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Part 2 Research Assignment
( LO1,3,4)
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As above
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Section
2 Research Assignment (Portfolio)
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9
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April 21
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Part 3 Research Assignment
( LO1,3,4)
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As above
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Section3 Research Assignment (Portfolio)
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10
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April 28
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Review and edit report
( LO5) Introduce Final Assessment
Research project
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On-line sources, academic texts,
newspaper and magazine articles
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Final
Submission Research Assignment
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11
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May 5
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Identify sources and make notes
( LO1,3) for Research Project
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As above
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Vocabulary
quizzes deadline
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12
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May 12
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Identify sources and make notes
( LO1,3) for Research Project
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As above
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Part
1 Research Project
Portfolio
deadline
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13
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May 19
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Part 2 Research Project (1,3,4)
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As above
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Part
2 Research project
Portfolio
deadline
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14
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May 26
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Part 3 Research Project (1,3,4)
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As above
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Part
3 Research Project Portfolio deadline
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15
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June 2
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Review, revise and edit Research
project (LO5)
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Final
Submission
Research
Project
Writing
Portfolio 2
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