English for Academic Purposes
Reading/Writing: Level VI

Class work concentrates on three processes: critical thinking, reading, and writing. The thinking component provides students with practice in logical thinking and in the logic of English. Students study and use inductive and deductive reasoning, identify propaganda devices and learn how to develop logical arguments. The reading component helps students sharpen their analytical reading skills, increase their reading comprehension, and intensify their word power. The writing component of the course gives student practice in academic assignments: essays, revision work, paraphrasing, summarizing, and research. Among the kinds of writing assigned are exposition, argumentation, and description. Patterns of development practiced include comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, process, an analysis. A typed research paper complete with abstract, outline, and footnotes and bibliography is required of all students.