ACADENG 104

Academic English for Business


Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for ACADENG 104.

Description

Course overview

This course focuses on academic English skills to help Business students understand and express business-related concepts. Students develop effective strategies for reading, writing and vocabulary-building by studying the language features of texts for academic style and communicative effects. Students will apply the skills and knowledge they develop from reading and language analysis activities, and will follow the process of writing, revising and editing to produce accurate texts that have clear communicative purpose and meaning. A coursebook is provided for this course.

ACADENG 104 is an approved course for Business degree students who have not met the Academic English Language Requirement (AELR). The course is not available as an AELR course to students from other faculties, unless prior approval has been granted.
Course outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

  • Identify, learn and use academic and business-related vocabulary
  • Read a range of texts relevant to academic business studies for overall understanding
  • Select and use strategies appropriate to the reading purpose: predicting, surveying, scanning, skim-reading, close-reading, SQ3R, summarising, inferring
  • Understand text organisation and language for academic text-types: expository, compare/contrast, cause and effect, argument/counterargument/refutation, problem-solution-evaluation
  • Use critical thinking to: distinguish key points from supporting evidence, separate fact from opinion, analyse and evaluate key ideas, synthesise information, argue with justification
  • Write well-structured paragraphs that are clear and coherent
  • Write researched, referenced essays/reports with ideas expressed in paraphrase or summary
  • Use processes for effective writing (planning, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading)
  • Evaluate and edit own and others’ writing for content and expression

Class limits information for 2020

Semester One: There are 120 places available. Entry is guaranteed for BCom and BProp students who need this course to meet the AELR requirement or for whom DELNA indicates this is the appropriate academic English course. Thereafter students will be enrolled on a first-in first-enrolled basis.

Semester Two: There are 90 places available. The first priority is Business degree students who need this course to meet the AELR requirement or for whom DELNA indicates this is the appropriate academic English course. Thereafter students will be enrolled on a first-in first-enrolled basis.

Assessment
Coursework + exam

View the course syllabus

Availability 2020

Semester 1, repeated Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s)  Lizzy Roe

Reading/Texts

ACADENG 104 Academic English for Business

Recommended Reading


Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

ACADENG 104: 15 points

Prerequisites


Corequisites


Restrictions

May not be taken if ENGWRIT 101 or ESOL 201 or ACADENG 201 or ESOL 210 or ACADENG 210 has previously been passed