The news offers facts, analyses and opinions on a huge amount of events that more or less shape our daily lives or our experience of the world. They reflect or challenge our own views. We will choose such hot-button issues for planning, structuring and writing academic essays in preparation of longer argumentative texts that you will be required to write as part of your term papers or final exams.
Overall, this course aims to provide you with the scaffolding for your academic essays which you can and should use in all academic text productions. We will practice its application continually, i.e. I expect students to write an academic essay independently once a week. You will receive individual feedback and we will use your work as a basis for further improvement. |
