Course Description:
The course is designed to help students take a deep approach in reading and writing academic texts which involve effective learning strategies and techniques aimed at improving the desired skills. The course consists of two major parts: the ‘reading section’ focuses on recognizing a topic sentence, skimming, scanning, use of cohesive devices, identifying facts and opinions, guess meanings of unfamiliar words. The ‘writing section’ deals with the knowledge and use of various grammatical components such as, parts of speech, tenses, voice, narration, modals etc. in practical contexts. grammatical components such as, parts of speech, tenses, voice, narration, modals etc. in practical contexts.
Course Objectives • To enable students to identify main/topic sentences. • To teach them to use effective strategies while reading texts. • To acquaint them with cohesive devices and their function in the text.
- Teacher: Ms Palwasha Azam Khan