About This Course

The Reading and Writing Workshops module is a comprehensive course designed to polish the advanced reading and writing skills of third-year BA students, effectively bridging the gap between the undergraduate level, postgraduate study, and the professional world.

The curriculum is structured into two cohesive units:

• Unit 1: Academic Writing – Introduces the foundational code of research communication, defining scholarly discourse and contrasting its objective framework with other genres. This unit aims for the mastery of the core pillars of academic text writing: formality, efficiency, clarity, modesty, accuracy, and integrity.
• Unit 2: Professional Documents – Focuses on practical written communication tailored for career environments.

To ensure practicality, this course functions as a practice-focused space that follows task-based explanations, breaking down writing strategies through sentence-based examples followed by rigorous, practical exercises.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to successfully achieve the following core learning outcomes:

• Apply Active Reading Strategies: Monitor and enhance comprehension of diverse literary and academic texts during scheduled classroom activities.
• Analyze and Revise Academic Writing: Evaluate major structural principles—including formality, efficiency, modesty, clarity, authority, accuracy, and integrity—by revising sample passages and justifying edits to uphold ethical scholarly standards.
• Evaluate and Synthesize Materials: Examine the linguistic, cultural, and literary elements of diverse texts, connecting prior reading and writing insights to construct coherent academic arguments and explore creative extensions.

Required Prerequisite Knowledge & Skills

To ensure your success in this module, incoming learners should possess foundational competency in the following areas:

• Reading Basics: Ability to identify main ideas and supporting details in short expository texts, recognize general purpose/audience, and identify organizational structures (cause-effect, compare-contrast, problem-solution).
• Active Reading Habits: Experience previewing headings, annotating essential points, formulating guiding questions, and drafting short passage summaries.
• Beginning Critical Awareness: Capacity to distinguish fact from opinion and recognize simple claims backed by evidence.
• Paragraph Writing Fundamentals: Skill in crafting a structurally unified paragraph containing a distinct topic sentence, supporting arguments, and basic transitional cohesion.
• Core Grammar & Mechanics: Functional mastery of sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, basic verb tenses, pronouns, articles, capitalization, and standard punctuation.

Assessment Methods & Grading

Your performance and course grade will be determined via transparent, ongoing checkpoints throughout each term:

⚠️ Attendance Policy Reminder

Regular presence is essential for workshop progression. For each unexcused absence, a deduction of 0.5 point will be applied directly to the final course total score.