English for Academic Purposes Lecturer: Miljen Matijašević e-mail: miljen.matijasevic@gmail.com G10, room 6 Session 1, 7 Mar 2016

Today’s session Introduction to the Course Discussions / Essay

English for Academic Purposes AIMS OF THE COURSE: To improve coherence in writing for academic purposes – mainly essays To go beyond sentence-level grammar and look at the structure of paragraphs, texts, connecting ideas in the text, introductions and conclusions, etc. Although focus will be on writing, oral interaction is expected of students and discussion activities will be included

English for Academic Purposes 7/03 Introduction to the Course 14/03 Language revision; Paraphrasing and Summarising 21/03 Structure and Cohesion 4/04 Definitions, Classifications; Academic Style 18/04 Describing Trends 25/04 Writing Formal Letters 2/05 Writing graded papers

Requirements for course completion Attending classes Completing homework assignments (not graded) summary formal letter chart interpretation Completing final assignments (graded) summary (written in class) interpretation of data and graphs (written in class) essay (home assignment)

Discussion

Discussion topics FREE higher EDUCATION FOR ALL THE IMPACT OF SMARTPHONES Select a topic and discuss it in pairs. Prepare a list of 4 arguments in favour and 4 arguments against the proposed topics.

English for Academic Purposes FREE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR ALL THE IMPACT OF SMARTPHONES Write a one-page essay on the topic including arguments in favour and against your topic exchanged in your group discussions.