2019-2020 Academic Year Fall Semester COMU ELT Department Writing Skills Course S. Razı

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TitleoftheCourse:

WritingSkills1

Course-No:

Semester:

1stYear

1stSemester(Fall)

Coursetype:Lecture Hours-Practice/Week:2-0

Credits

Local ECTS

Status:Compulsory LanguageofInstruction:English 2 2

Lecturer: Assoc.Prof.Dr.SalimRazı

Contact:

Web:www.salimrazi.comEmail:salimrazi@gmail.com, salimrazi@comu.edu.tr

Tel:+902862171303ext:3526-3661

Fax:+902862120751

Coursedescription:This course aims to develop academic written skills by means of critical analysis ofacademictexts.Relatedreadingswillcomefromtherelevantliteratureinvariouswayssuch as academic books and journals which enable learners to develop and increasevocabularyinanacademiccontextwiththehopeofcontributingtotheirwritingskills.Withinthisperspective,thiscoursemainlyencourageslearnerstowriteacademictexts.Learnerswill have theopportunity of benefiting from scaffolding throughdigital peerfeedbackexchangeontheirwrittenassignments.Learnersareexpectedtoanalyseandproduce essays considering the organization, coherence, cohesion, unity, vocabularyselection,in-textcitationsrulesincludingquoting,paraphrasing,andsummarizingasthiscourseaimstoteachacademicwritingtostudentswhoneedtopresentanddefendtheirownpointsofviewclearlyandpersuasively.Studentsalsoworktomasterthenormsofin-text citationsandattributingdata fromprintandothersources,and toobserve themethodsofacknowledgingtheresearchfindingsofothers,specificallyintheAPAstyle.Teachingmethod: Lectures,extensivereading,peer-review.Prerequisites: Advancedreadingcomprehensionskillsandproficiencyininformal

writing.Teachingaids: PowerPointpresentation,Turnitin(text-matchingsoftware)

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Assessmentmethod:GoodnewsJ There are nopen andpaper tests for this course.However, it does notnecessarilymean thatyouwillpasswithoutanyefforts.During the term,youneed tosubmit3writtenassignmentsatanaveragelengthof600wordsforeach.Inaddition,youalsoneedtoexchangefeedbackwith3peersthatareassignedbythelecturer.Foreachassignment,youareexpectedtoreviseyourpaperbythehelpofthepeerfeedbackthatyouretrieveandsubmit itasarevisionassignment.Pleaserememberthatallrevisionassignmentsneedtobesubmitteddigitallybothwithandwithouttracksofchanges.Theprocess of submitting assignments and exchanging peer feedback will be managedthroughTurnitin.Hard-copyoremailsubmissionswillnotbetakenintoconsideration.Scoresretrievedfrompeerreviewtaskswillfunctionasmid-termexaminationandhavetheweight of 40%whereas scores retrieved fromwriting taskswill function as finalexaminationandhavetheweightof60%.Attendancepolicy:Youneedtoreadrelatedchaptersbeforetheclass.Attendancewillbetakenandrecordedinallclasssessions.Youneedtoattend70%ofthelecturesotherwiseyouautomaticallyfail.Plagiarismpolicy:Eitheraccidentalorintentional,thereisnotoleranceforplagiarism.YouneedtosubmitallyourassignmentsthroughTurnitinandasthelecturerIwilldeterminetheoriginalityof your assignments by checking them against plagiarism. Please check the lecturer’spolicyofplagiarismforfurtherdetails.Registrationfortheexamination: Tosubmityourassignmentsandtoreviewyourpeer’sassignmentsthroughTurnitin,youneedtoenrolinTurnitinvirtualclass.Assignmentrequirements:

• MustbeonA-4paper.• Musthave2.5cmmargins(onallsides)andmustbewrittenwithdoublespacing.• DoNOTwriteyournameorfacultynumberonyourassignments.Thisisessential

aspeer-reviewprocessismanagedanonymously.• Mustbe turned in on timeonly throughTurnitin. Late assignmentswill not be

takenintoconsideration.

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Week/Date DiscussionTopicsMainReading

SupplementaryReading

Assignments

Week116-20.09.2019

Introducingcoursecontent. ------------- ------------- -------------

Week223-27.09.2019

Introductiontoacademicwriting.

Razı(2011)[Chapter1]

APA(2009)Cumming(2006)Oshima(1997)

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Week330.09-04.10.2019

Basicstepsinprocesswriting.

Razı(2015a,2015b)

Bailey(2011)Reid(2000) -------------

Week407-11.10.2019

Introductiontoin-textcitations.

Razı(2011)[Chapter8] APA(2009)

Assignment1(Firstdraft)

Week514-18.10.2019

Presentingin-textcitations.3rdInternationalDayofActionagainstcontractcheating.

Razı(2011)[Chapter9)

APA(2009)Hashimotoetal.(1982)Zemach&Rumisek(2003)

Assignment1(Peer)

Week621.25-04.11.2019

Familiarizationofacademicintegrity:Avoidingplagiarismandcontractcheating.

Razı(2017b)Bailey(2011)Williams&Davis(2017,pp.67-94)

Assignment1(Revision)

Week728.10-01.11.2019

Interpretingtext-matchingsoftwaresimilarityreports.

Razı(2017c,2018) ------------- -------------

Week804-08.11.2019

Detailswithin-textcitations.

Razı(2011)[Chapter11] APA(2009)

Assignment2(Firstdraft)

Week911-15.11.2018

Midtermexamweek:Subjecttochange.

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Week1018-22.11.2019

Practisingin-textcitations.

Razı(2011)[Chapter10] APA(2009)

Assignment2(Peer)

Week1125-29.11.2019

Exchangingeffectivepeerfeedback

Razı(2016a,2016b,2016c,2017a)

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Week1202-06.12.2019

Connectingideas:Unityandcoherence.

Razı(2011)[Chapter6] Bailey(2011)

Assignment3(Firstdraft)

Week1309-13.12.2018

Onlinewritingtools(e.g.,SASwritingreviser).

------------- Peachey(2017,pp.21-32)

Assignment3(Peer)

Week1416-20.12.2019

Lecturerfeedbackonwrittenassignments. ------------- -------------

Assignment3(Revision)

23.12.2019-03.01.2020 FinalExam ------------- ------------- -------------

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Mainreading:Razı,S.(2011).AdvancedreadingandwritingskillsinELT:APAstylehandbook.Ankara:Nobel.Razı,S.(2015a).Cross-checkedproblemsinundergraduateacademicwriting.K.Dikilitaş,R.

Smith,&W.Trotman(Eds.),Teacher-researchersinaction(pp.147-161).Kent,UK:IATEFL.

Razı,S.(2015b).Developmentofarubrictoassessacademicwritingincorporatingplagiarismdetectors.SAGEOpen,5(2),1-13.DOI:10.1177/2158244015590162

Razı,S.(2016a).Arereviewskillsandacademicwritingskillsrelated?Anexploratoryanalysisviamulti-sourcefeedbacktools.InternationalJournalofProgressiveEducation,12(1),117-127.

Razı,S.(2016b).Openandanonymouspeerreviewinadigitalonlineenvironmentcomparedinacademicwritingcontext.InC.Goria,O.Speicher&S.Stollhans(Eds.),Innovativelanguageteachingandlearningatuniversity:Enhancingparticipationandcollaboration(pp.49-56).Dublin,UK:Research-publishing.net.

Razı,S.(2016c).Undergraduates’perceptionsofanonymousandopendigitalpeerfeedbackinacademicwriting.InP.Sappapan(Ed.),Foreignlanguagelearningandteaching4(pp.78-89).Bangkok:ThammasatUniversity.

Razı,S.(2017a).Anonymousmulti-mediatedwritingmodel:PeerfeedbackexchangeinEAP.InD.Köksal(Ed.),ResearchingELT:Classroommethodologyandbeyond(pp.29-42).Frankfurt:PeterLang.

Razı,S.(2017b).Benefitingfromanonymousmulti-mediatedwritingmodeltoavoidplagiarism.PaperpresentedattheEuropeanNetworkforAcademicIntegrity1stJointStaffTrainingEvent,13September,UniversityofMaribor,Slovenia.

Razı,S.(2017c).Howtobenefitfromsimilarityreports?PaperpresentedattheEuropeanNetworkforAcademicIntegrity1stJointStaffTrainingEvent,14September,MinistryofEducation,ScienceandSports,Ljubljana,Slovenia.

Razı,S.(2018).Fallaciesintheinterpretationoftext-matchingsoftwaresimilarityreports.Paperpresentedtobeatthe4thPlagiarismacrossEuropeandBeyondConference,Fosteringacademicintegritythroughconsistentandtransparentapproaches,9-11May2018,Ephesus,Turkey.

Supplementaryreading:AmericanPsychologicalAssociation(APA).(2009).PublicationmanualoftheAmerican

PsychologicalAssociation(6thed.).Washington,DC:Author.Bailey, S. (2011). Academic writing: A handbook for international students. New York, NY:

Routledge.Cumming,A.(2006).Goalsforacademicwriting:ESLstudentsandtheirinstructors.Amsterdam:

JohnBenjamins.Hashimoto,I.Y.,Kroll,B.M.,&Schafer,J.C.(1982).Strategiesforacademicwriting:Aguidefor

collegestudents.AnnArbor,MI:TheUniversityofMichiganPress.Oshima,A.(1997).Introductiontoacademicwriting.WhitePlains:Longman.Peachy,N.(2017).Digitaltoolsforteachers.PeacheyPublications.Reid,J.M.(2000).Theprocessofcomposition(3rded.).EnglewoodCliffs:PrenticeHallRegents.Zemach,D.E.,&Rumisek,L.A.(2003).Academicwriting:Fromparagraphtoessay.Oxford:

Macmillan.Williams, K., & Davis, M. (2017). Referencing & understanding plagiarism (2nd ed.). London:

Palgrave.

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TurnitinAssignmentSubmissionGuidelinesClassID:22407958 Enrollmentpassword:Writing2019EnrollinginaclassYoumustenrollinyourclassbeforeyoucanbeginusingTurnitin.Todothis,usetheclassIDandenrollmentpasswordabove.Tocreateyouraccount,pleasevisithttp://turnitin.com/andfollowtheinstructionsbelow.Howtocreateanewuserprofileandenrolinyourclass1. Clickthe“CreateAccount”linktotheleftoftheSigninbuttonontheTurnitinhomepage.

2. ClickonthestudentlinkfromtheCreateaNewTurnitinAccountscreen.

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3. EnteryourclassIDandenrollmentpasswordintheappropriatefields.

4. Enteryourfirstandlastnamesandthee-mailaddressyouwouldlikeassociatedwithyourTurnitinaccount.Thiswillbeyourusername.

5. Enterandre-enterthepasswordyouwouldliketouseasyourTurnitinloginpassword.

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6. Selectasecretquestionusingthesecretquestionpulldownmenu,enterananswer.

7. ReviewtheTurnitinuseragreementandclicktoagreeandfinalizeuserprofilecreation.

8. Onceyouregister,youwillhaveanaccesstoyouraccountandseeapagelikethis:

9. Clickonthenameofyourclass(WritingSkills2019Fall).10. Clickon‘submit’andselecttheappropriateassignment.11. Forpaperitemsubmissionmethod,pleasechoose‘singlefileupload’.

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12. Yournamewillappearautomatically.Please,writethetitleofyourpaperandcontinuebyclicking ‘Choosefromthiscomputer’.At thisstep, it isalsopossibletouploadfiles from‘Dropbox’and‘GoogleDrive’.

13. Donotforgettoclick‘Upload’tosubmityourassignment.14. Tocompleteyoursubmission,youneedtoclick‘Confirm’toindicatethatthisisthefileyou

wouldliketosubmit.15. Finally,ifyoursubmissionissuccessfulyouwillreceivethefollowingnotification.Ifyoudo

notreceivesuchanotification,itmeansthatthereissomethingwrongwithyoursubmission.