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SUMMER SEMESTER 2008
FAL X99-4 ?
FOUNDATIONS IN ACADEMIC LITERACY
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Instructor: Susan Barber email: sbarber9@te1us.net
Surrey Campus Room 3250
Da y s
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Times:
Monday, May 5th 9:00-4:00 pm
Tuesday, May 6th 9:00-4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 7 9:00-4:00 pm
Monday, June 23, 9:00-4:00 pm
Tuesday, June 24, 9:00-4:00 pm
Wednesday, June
25,
9:00-4:00 pm
PLEASE NOTE:
"This section is a Blended Mode version of FAL X99. This will involve face-to-face
classroom sessions from 9.00 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Surrey on the following dates: May 5th, 6th, 7th; June
23rd, 24th, 25th. The remainder of the course will be delivered online."
It is the student's responsibility to ensure there are no conflicts with any other course
PREREQUISITE:
None.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The following is the syllabus for the FAL X-99 course. The syllabus is made up of six units of study.
Instructors may change the order of activities, and the content of the classes, in order to meet the needs
of the students in their group.
Unit 1:
Writing about yourself
Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Write about their learning style and about their own lives
* Express own feelings through writing
* Write using their own voice
* Practice skimming and scanning texts
* Discuss literacy histories
* Learn how to use First Class
Class 1:
Me as a learner.
* Who I am
* My hopes and fears; me as a learner
* Learning and sharing through writing
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* My goals and how I hope to achieve them
Class 2: An introduction to First Class.
Class 3:
My story.
* My story, personal narrative
* A major event in my life (editing, feed-back processes, revision)
* Linking reading to writing
Class 4:
Peer-based learning.
* Peer-based learning
* Giving, and responding to, constructive feedback
Class 5: Literacy histories and early memories.
* Discussing literacy histories
* Reading and writing about memories.
Unit 2: Different audiences and different styles:
reading and writing
Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Demonstrate an awareness of style and audience through
reading and writing
* Rewrite texts and analyze own work to improve style
Class 6:
Writing for different audiences
* What audiences do I write for?
* What style/conventions are needed for each audience?
* Text analysis: newspaper/magazine, academic article,
email/internet page
Class
7: Academic style: some general principles
• Style as:
• Effective expression of ideas
• Degrees of formality
Class 8:
Rewriting to improve style
* Analyzing and rewriting texts
Class 9:
Diagnostic writing
• Writing task to diagnose each student's strengths and
• weaknesses in writing
Unit 3:
Speaking and writing together; editing work
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Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Work on a group presentation & a group writing activity
* Present work orally
* Receive self-study guidelines
* Edit own work
* Visit SFU Library & Learning Commons (Surrey or Burnaby)
Class 10:
Spoken academic language
* Speaking in academic contexts: cultural perspectives and
conventions
* Oral presentations: guidelines
* Working together: group projects - topic selection for later oral
presentation and write-up
Class 11:
Editing own work
* Receive self-study guidelines based on [i] marked diagnostic
writing tasks & [ii] sample of written work from ongoing studies
* Receive diagnostic writing task marked with FAL marking code
* Editing own work
* Peer-based learning: models of students' work
* Mid-course evaluation of progress form
Class 12:
Group Presentations
• Each group presents to the whole class: maximum 10 minutes
• presentation +
5
minutes questions and answers.
Class 13:
Library visit
* Visit SFU library/Learning Commons: tour and worksheet
Unit 4:
Incorporating ideas into your writing:
your ideas and those of others
Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Annotate text
* Develop voice as argument/opinion/agency/life experience in
writing
* Add others' arguments/opinions into writing
* Write a summary and a critical summary
* Use references and citations
Class 14:
Annotating text
* Reading and annotating text
Class
15:
Developing Voice (Argument/Opinion/Agency/Life Experience) in writing
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* Ways of expressing arguments/opinions/agency/life experience
in writing
* Writing summaries and critical summaries
* Cultural perspectives on entering ongoing debates
Class 16:
Making the summary critical
* Paraphrasing
* Adding on opinion and those of others to a summary
Class 17:
Bringing in others' ideas
* Citations and referencing - an introduction
* Avoiding plagiarism
Unit
5:
Beginning, middle and end
Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Write an introduction
* Write a conclusion
* Write main body paragraphs
Class 18:
Introductions
* Key functions of introductions
* Writing practice
Class 19:
The paragraph
• Strategies for writing paragraphs: text analysis and writing
• Positioning ideas for readers
• Topic sentences
Class 20:
Conclusions
* Key functions of conclusions
* Writing practice
Class 21:
Putting the sections together
* Writing with a beginning, middle and end
Unit 6:
Finishing off.
Learning Outcomes
In this unit, students will:
* Practice note-taking strategies
* Practice transferring notes to written text
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* Review course components
* Prepare portfolios for assessment
Class
22: Listening and note-taking
* Strategies for effective note-taking: cues for key information,
abbreviating notes
* Note-taking practice
* Transferring notes to written text
Class 23: From note-taking to writing
* Taking notes and creating written text
Class 24:
Revision class
Class
25:
Peer review of portfolios
* Final help on putting portfolio together.
* Reminder of assessment criteria.
Class 26:
Final class
* Hand in portfolios
* Farewells.
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