English ( Nursing): English V

Unit II          Critical Thinking Skills Unit Description:

This unit aims to develop the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate ideas and arguments. It also aims to teach these skills so that they can be transferred to other studies and to everyday life.

Unit Objectives:

By the end of the unit, students will be able to:

1. Understand what is meant by critical thinking and how it can be improved
2. Identify reasons and conclusions: the reasons of reasoning
3. Understand reasoning
4. Clarify and interpret expressions and ideas
5. Understand the acceptability of reasons
6. Judge the credibility of sources skillfully
7. Evaluate inferences

Unit III Grammar Unit Description:

This unit is particularly designed to improve the four major language skills. The objectives are linked to detailed descriptions of techniques and activities through which the learners could incorporate at each stage of language skills.

Unit Objectives:

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Identify and correct sentence fragments
2. Edit run-on sentences
3. Correct misplaced modifiers
4. Revise dangling modifiers
5. Check faulty parallelism
6. Practice subject verb-agreement
7. Use the correct forms of grammatical structures in context
8. Revisit tenses

Unit IV Summary Writing Unit Description:

The objectives of this unit will help the learners to reflect on their own writing process, and find ways to improve their summary writing techniques.

Unit Objectives:

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Understand the importance of summary writing
2. Identify main ideas / themes
3. Identify supporting details
4. Select and cluster relevant information
5. Practice summarizing nursing and non nursing articles.

Unit V  Letters to the Editor Unit Description:

This unit aims to enhance students’ professional letter writing skills pertaining to letters to the editors. It focuses on the content, language and style.

Unit Objectives:

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Understand and use the appropriate language
2. Write letters to express their point of view on contemporary social issue

Unit VI Presentation Skills Unit Description:

This unit focuses on developing communication skills of learners on a one- to-one basis. This will help them to present their ideas clearly and persuasively.

Unit Objectives:

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Understand elements of a good presentation
2. Know how to make well organized and clear presentation
3. Focus on the purpose
4. Understand the significance of the audience
5. Develop clarity and accuracy in presenting information
6. Handle questions raised by the audience
7. Make effective presentations.