Lehrende/r: Michael A.C. Claridge
Veranstaltungsart: Übung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 35
Anmeldegruppe: WE II
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Building on the writing skills you acquired in “Writing English I”, we will open with a brief refresher concerning the key elements of an effective academic essay before exploring different rhetorical strategies that can be used both individually and collectively when responding to a literary or cultural-studies text, e.g. comparison & contrast, cause & effect, definition & classification, exemplification, summary. Writing tasks along the way will help you further internalise these and other tools, while peer-to-peer feedback will enable you to refine your ‘critical eye’. Content-wise, we will apply a similar(ly) ‘critical eye’ to selected literary and/or cultural-studies texts to study our own more subjective response and then consider how to package ideas in a manner that can persuade the READER of our line of argumentation: YOUR view is perfectly ok, as long as you can adequately and effectively support it, especially from the primary text(s)! Such a READER focus will be the central ‘mantra’ of our course, taking in the use of syntax and vocabulary as we test various tools to enable expansion in these areas too and continue with the process of eradicating interference from German (and any other languages!) when writing (in) English. You will be expected to have access to one of the better monolingual English learners’ dictionaries, either in print form or on your device or online. The best two are currently the Longman/Langenscheidt “Dictionary of Contemporary English” and the Oxford University Press “Advanced Learner’s Dictionary”. Other material will be made available in the first class session and in the course of the semester. The final exam – for everyone – will be a 90-minute in-class essay. This will also constitute the module exam, for anyone taking it in this course instead of in Translation Skills II.
