Paper Profile

ESLA101-10A (HAM) & 10B (HAM)
Academic Writing and Research

15 Points

Aim/Objectives

This paper is designed to provide EAL students enrolled in any School of Studies with fundamental writing and research skills to learn and study effectively in university papers. The paper focuses on analytical approaches to processing and creating written academic texts, including techniques for organising information and approaches to secondary research appropriate to an academic setting. Moodle is used as an integral part of this course.

This course aims to present students' with ideas, guidelines and frameworks that can be used to write more effectively in an academic context. The aims combine to help students from Non-English speaking backgrounds with practice in an academic context in the skills of reading, writing and lexical development.

The course emphasises:

• the reading of texts of a general academic nature and the ability to recognise main points, extract relevant information and make useful notes,
• recognition of a writer's attitude and interpretation of a writer's intention,
• paraphrasing and summarising,
• the writing of essay outlines and assessment of personal writing,
• redrafting and production of essays of approximately 1,500 - 200 words which are well-organised, contain information relevant to the topic, have a logical flow of ideas, are grammatically accurate, and include appropriate acknowledgement of reference sources, and
• the ability to work in cooperative groups for the production of work.

Requisite(s)

Restriction(s):	--
Equivalent(s):	0213112, 1213101 and 0215101
Prerequisite(s):	--
Corequisite(s):	--

Students may credit only one of ALED100 or ESLA101 towards a BA or BSocSc degree.

Assessment

Internal assessment/examination ratio: 1 : 0

This course will be internally assessed. Assessment will be based on a variety of written assignments done throughout the course.

As a required part of the assessed course work, students must cooperate and collaborate with other members of the class in groups. Co-operation of this type is compulsory for this course and students are expected to contribute work and engage in discussion and debate with their group members within and outside lecture time. Participation within groups and completion of group assignments is required for successful completion of the course.

Classtimes

Timetable

Attendance is compulsory. Students are expected to attend 80% of the lectures, i.e. 20 out of the 24 lectures. Regardless of the fulfillment of the assignment requirement, if any student fails to attend the number of lectures required, they will be awarded a fail for the course, unless medical certificates are provided. The workload for the course will be easier to manage if you attend class, review your lecture material and allow yourself plenty of lead-in time for the assessments. You should also make sure that you take advantage of tutorial help during the semester.

Resources

Required Book(s):
There is a set of Course Materials that have to be purchased for this course, which are:

ESLA101 Academic Writing & Research, Course Materials.

These notes can be purchased from Campus Copy at the beginning of Semester A and B.

There are no set texts that have to be purchased for this course. There is however, a Highly Recommended text that can be purchased from Bennetts Books. This text is:

Perrin, R. (2004). Pocket guide to APA style. Boston, MA; & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Contact

Senior Tutor:	Lucy Campbell
Phone: Room: Fax: Email:	+64 7 838 4466, extn. 8051 JK3.01 +64 7 838 4788 lucy@waikato.ac.nz

Regulations and Policies

Your attention is drawn to the following regulations and policies which are published in The University of Waikato Calendar:

• Regulations Governing Examinations and Assessment
• Discipline Regulations
• Computer System Regulations
• Policy on the Use of Māori for Assessment
• Policy on the Ethical Conduct of Coursework Assignments
• Regulations on Plagiarism