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Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND WRITING METHODS	AKE427	7. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	4.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Gamze KATI GÜMÜŞ
Assistants
Goals	To develop students’ English language usage skills: Listening, reading, speaking, and writing To enable students to use in class listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of literary texts To enable students to use listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of culture classes To give students the skill to study literary texts with a critical eye To give students the skill to analyze literary texts To enhance the comprehension of literary texts by means of history of culture classes To enable students to appreciate the literary texts within their cultural context To bring together the English language and its usage as well as its cultural norms and paradigms To enable the acquisition of the essentials of the literary genres; namely fiction (novels, short stories), drama, poetry via examples To enable the acquisition of the basic periods of English and American literary history together To improve students’ language skills by oral and written expressions based on the study of literary and cultural texts To provide students with the means of reading and appreciating the works of any other culture via analytical and critical readings of literary and cultural texts To enable students to transfer cultural traits by translation from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English while improving translation skills
Course Content	Research Techniques: The process ranging from finding keywords for research to a systematic collection of data that will be used in the research paper. Referencing: Getting quotes from the canonized texts and documenting the quotes both in the text and at the end of the text according to the rules of MLA. Avoiding Plagiarism: Plagiarism, also known as academic theft, means getting material from sources without referencing to them and excessive quoting from one or more texts. Academic Style: It refers to use of detached language that does not include overt subjectivity and sentimentalism Organization: It includes dividing the article into the units of introduction, body and conclusion for the sake of clarity and convenience of communication. Sections or the paragraphs of the article should abide by the principles of unity, coherence, purpose and development.
Learning Outcomes	1) To develop students’ English language usage skills: Listening, reading, speaking, and writing 2) To enable students to use in class listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of literary texts 3) To enable students to use listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of culture classes