ESSAY \,VRITING 2ND YEAR ENGLISH N4AiORS

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TUTOR: assist. dr. Erika ]r{ih6lrrcsa

The one-term practical course in Essay writing aims at improving students' study skills and is entirely dedicated to academic writing. It wilt tackle such issues as organizing one's research, assembling

bibliography, arguing from written material, citation (citation, quotation, paraphrasing), referencing, familiarizing students with the MLA format. Special emphasis will be piaced on raising students' awareness of plagiarism, and how to avoid it. Students will go through the successive stages of drafting and re-drafting an academic essay which they will hand in for evaluation at the end of the term. In the course of the term a number of critical and literary essays will be read and discussed, students being requested to write reviews on some of these. Review-writing will also feature prorninently on the syllabus, a number of (literary, academic) reviews being read and compared in class and students being requested to write an academic review on a critical volume of their own choice by the end of the term.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Salman Rushdie: lmaginary Homelands ]eanette Winterson: Stanley
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Hugh Kenner:

Shades of Syntax

George Orwell: lnside the \Male Salman Rushdie: Outside thel,Male

The requested class attendance for this practical course is 80%. Students will be requested to hand in all written tasks on the established deadline, to read the bibliography provided by the tutor for each

meeting. Plagiarism

will automatically

lead to the student's disqualification, the final grade for

plagiarism being 1.
ASSESSMENT: The form of assessmentfor this practical course is continuous, the final grade being the average of the grades obtained for the written tasks.