GE5500-532 Academic English for Graduate Studies
Course Schedule

First Week

Pretest

Second Week

Introduction to the course
Language Review and Self-study assignments

 Third Week

Note -Making & Study Skills

Fourth Week

Finding cohesive devices and textual rhetorical patterns

 

Project 1: Report Reading

 Fifth Week

Reading Focus: Inductive, Deductive and Argumentative Reasoning

 Sixth Week 9 July Reading focus: Genre analysis of selected excerpts
 Seventh Week 18 July Mid-Term

Project 1 Due

Self-Study Assignments Due

 Eighth Week  Recess
 Ninth Week

Facts and Figures

Tenth Week

Paraphrasing

Project 2: Research Report

 Eleventh Week

Elements of report writing

 Twelfth Week

Abstract and Oral Presentation

 Thirteenth Week  Oral Presentation
 Fourteenth Week Final

Project 2 Due

Self-Study Assignments Due