ENGL 1070EED
ENGL 1070EED |
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ENGLISH FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDY |
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Course Coordinator:
Catherine Wong Shee-hei, BA (Eng), MPhil (Ling) , PGDE, Prof. Dip (CUHK)
Course Developers:
Dr Tiffany Ip Nga-min, Consultant (Units 1, 3 and 4)
Keenan Daniel Manning, Consultant (Units 2, 5 and 6)
Aims
ENGL 1070EED English for Post-secondary Study aims to:
Contents
Study units
Unit 1 Text and fluency
Unit 2 Words and meaning
Unit 3 Good paragraphs
Unit 4 Putting ideas together
Unit 5 Getting started on writing
Unit 6 Producing a text
Learning support
This course involves 120 study hours. There will be seven two-hour tutorials to discuss students' progress and provide them with further practice in the skills taught in the materials.
Assessment
Continuous assessment
This course has two assignments, and each is described here very briefly.
For Assignment 1, students are required to complete (1) three grammar and usage tasks and (2) a reading comprehension task.
For Assignment 2, students are required to complete (1) three grammar and usage tasks and (2) an academic writing task.
Each assignment carries 20% of the weighting for the course.
Examination
The examination for ENGL 1070EED will be of three hours' duration and will account for 60% of the total course grade. The examination will reflect very closely the work students carry out during the course, thus ensuring that only what actually taught is finally examined. The examination will require students to complete three grammar and usage tasks, a reading comprehension task and an academic essay writing task. No course-related reading matter and other materials will be allowed in the examination room.
The assessment items are outlined in the following table.
| Assessment | Course area covered | Weighting |
| Assignment 1 | Units 1–3 | 20% |
| Assignment 2 | Units 4–5 | 20% |
| Examination | Entire course | 60% |
| Total | 100% | |
Electronic submission of assignments
Except for some designated assignments, students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).
Online Requirement
Students may be required to refer to the Online Learning Environment (OLE) and relevant websites.
Set book(s)
There is one set textbook for ENGL 1070EED.
Swan, M., & Walter, C. (2019). Oxford English grammar course: Advanced with answers (Revised edition). Oxford University Press.
Other materials
Other course materials will be provided for students throughout the term. Students will also need access to a dictionary, for example,
Oxford advanced learner's dictionary (10th ed.). (2020). Oxford University Press; or
Collins Cobuild advanced learner's English dictionary (9th ed.). (2018). Harper Collins.
