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English ( Nursing): English VI

Course Outline

Unit Objectives:

Unit I           Academic Writing Unit Descriptions:

This unit would assist the learners to improve upon their academic writing, with special focus on language used in comparison and contrast, and cause and effect.

Unit Objectives:

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

  1. develop unity within ideas presented
  2. support ideas with evidence
  3. organize ideas coherently
  4. use appropriate sentence structure
  5. use specific transitional words / phrase effectively
  6. write essays presenting effective arguments
Unit II         Incident Reports Unit Description:

The aim of this unit is to enhance the learners language skills to be able to detect problems, determine their causes and resolve the issues while writing incident reports.

Unit Objectives:

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

  1. Identify the purpose for writing incident report
  2. Exploit guidelines for incident reports
  3. Write organized incident report
  4. Use appropriate language for writing incident reports.

Unit III Proof reading & Editing Skills Unit Description:

The unit will guide students to realize that academic writing is a process that involves drafting and re-drafting to craft your paper into its final form. The students will review and re-work on texts keeping in mind the purpose of writing and the audience it is being written for.

Unit Objectives:

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

  1. Understand what is involved in editing
  2. Edit for structure-organization
  3. Edit for style-tone
  4. Proof read for spellings, punctuation, grammar

Unit IV References & Citations in APA Style Unit Description:

The course is designed to enhance the scientific information of the learners. In addition the course will also improve the scholarly and technical information of the learners.

Unit Objectives:

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

  1. Understand what plagiarism involves
  2. Cite sources (quotations and paraphrasing)
  3. Compile a reference list
  4. Use levels of headings
  5. Use APA style in written assignments.

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