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WHAT’S THE COURSE ABOUT?

Building on Academic Reading (BS 101) and Academic Writing (BS 111), this course extends your knowledge of essay and paragraph form, library research, critical evaluation, and citations by challenging you to practice reading and writing as an interconnected art for formulating and exploring a complex question that fascinates you, developing deeper thinking and re-thinking about a topic, learning and responding to contemporary issues, and solving a problem affecting your local community. That is, this course helps you use reading and writing as a method for questioning, discovering, analyzing, advocating, and problem solving.Specifically, you will learn to refine the focus, organization, coherence, and clarity of your composition through frequent reading, revision, and research of academic and business projects so that you can effectively read and compose paragraphs, essays and business documents (letter and proposal) that meet professional international conventions. In short, in this course, you will read to write, write to think, think to rewrite, and re-write to re-read your perspectives.

WHAT MAJOR TOPICS WILL THE COURSE COVER?

1. How to read difficult texts using SQ3R and 10/5 methods
2. Using reading to stimulate writing and writing to complicate re-thinking
3. Developing sophisticated questions to guide writing
4. Annotating texts
5. Revising academic writing for coherence, organization, clarity, and focus
6. Business letter conventions
7. Business proposal elements
8. News writing
9. Field research methods
10. Integrating sources
11. Academic citations
12. Sentence structure
13. Grammar, usage and mechanics 

CLASS MATERIALS

Text  

1. The DK Handbook  

Hardware/Software

1. Thammsat University Google account
2. Reliable access to the internet

EVALUATION

A 100-93%                   B+  92-85%                 B  84-77%                    C+ 76-69%     

C  68-61%                    D+  60-53%                 D  52-45%                   F  44% and below