description & set texts
The course focuses on developing English academic reading and writing skills necessary for success during university studies. Through a series of in-class and home assignments, students will practice to read with a clear purpose in mind and effectively process (i.e., understand, question and evaluate) the content of various short academic texts; develop their reading skills and strategies; purposefully extract, summarise and paraphrase ideas from readings; and to write well-organised and well-formed short academic English texts based on their readings. The course is meant to provide the foundations necessary to progress from writing one extended paragraph long, one source-based academic texts to longer, multiple source-based and multi-paragraph academic texts, and therefore it is a pre-requisite for the Academic Skills 2 (Tudományos íráskészség 2) course offered in the spring semester. The Academic Skills courses are prerequisites for the BA Language Proficiency Examination (ANG11-001 Nyelvi alapvizsga angol nyelvből).
Set texts:
#COMPULSORY:
Tankó, Gy. (2019 or later). Paraphrasing, summarising and synthesising skills for academic writers: Theory and practice (2nd Rev. ed.). Budapest: Eötvös University Press.
NB: Chapters to cover in the first semester: 1, 2, 3 & 4
Available at:
Eötvös University Press
https://e-otvos.com
https://e-otvos.com/contact
#OPTIONAL:
Academic Skills 1 Reader and Workbook (esp.Chapters on Library research skills, Note-taking skills,Paragraph writing skills).
Available at:
http://deal.elte.hu/download/FINAL_BBN_ANG_104_Reader-and-Workbook_2013Autumn.pdf
File available for download until: 11-09-2022 (If you use it,
download it and put it on Moodle. Do not make it available online on any other
platform for copyright issues.