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English academic discourse

ННД.15.

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

4 Semester

3

PLO 2. To have deep knowledge of the official (Ukrainian) and foreign languages for the written and oral communication purposes, professional and scientific communication in particular; to present research results in the official (Ukrainian) and foreign languages. PLO 6. To apply knowledge of expressive, emotional and logical linguistic means, and speech techniques in order to achieve planned pragmatic results and establish successful communication. PLO 10. To collect and systematise linguistic, literary and folklore facts, to interpret and translate texts of different styles and genres (depending on the specialisation elected). PLO 14. To create, analyze and edit texts of different styles and genres.

Full-time form

Students have to speak English at the C1 level; to know the main functions, types, structure and participants of the communication process; functional styles and genres of English speech; be able to perceive, select and critically interpret information from English-language sources; decode the speaker's intentions by analyzing communicative strategies in oral and written speech; analyze, compare, compare language and speech phenomena at the level of a sentence, paragraph, text; analyze English original texts of various genres; create texts in compliance with the norms of the speech genre; perform and present educational projects and work in a project group.

The purpose of the discipline is to improve the sociocultural and speech competence of students and increase the effectiveness of academic communication in English by: familiarizing students with the features of academic discourse, systematizing knowledge about speech tools and rhetorical strategies of the English language in the specified discourse, forming students' skills in producing academic discourse texts in English, improving the skills of analysis and use of speech tools and rhetorical strategies in various situations of academic communication, as well as in various genre texts of the specified discourse.

1. Andrews, R. (2014). A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric. Routledge. 2. Barnet, S., Bedau, H. (2014). Critical Thinking, Reading, and Witting: A Brief Guide to Argument. Bedford/St Martin’s. 3. Bauer, J., Boyle, M., Stapleton, S. (2016). Final Draft (2,3). Cambridge University Press. 4.Fahnestock, J. (2012). Rhetorical Style in Persuasion. Oxford University Press. 5. Flowerdew, J. (2013). Academic Discourse. Routledge. 6. Garzone, G. & Giordano, W. (eds). (2018). Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise: Where Business Meets Discourse. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 7. Henderson, E. (2015). The Active Reader: Strategies for Academic Reading and Writing. Oxford University Press. 8. Hyland, K. (2006). English for Academic Purposes: An Advanced Resource Book. Routledge.

1. Participation in discussions of topics being studied (auditory work). 2. Project work. 3. Academic essay (integrated reading and writing skills). 4. Academic essay (integrated listening and writing skills). 5. Modular control work (rhetorical text analysis).

The credit is given based on the results of the student's work throughout the entire semester and does not include additional assessment measures. Students who scored the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive - "enrolled". Students who did not score the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive - "not enrolled". Students who scored less than 60 points in total for the semester must prepare material on the topics for which the debt arose, in the form of writing independent works, essays, or, if necessary, write a test paper in order to receive a credit.

Ukrainian, English