Reading for Academic Purposes (119-22A)

This course aims at developing knowledge and skills in analytical reading to satisfy CEFR B1+ in understanding information from multi-modal texts typical to academic texts efficiently. Discussion in this course includes locating main information and supporting evidence explicitly and implicitly, understanding author's voice and stance, comparing and contrasting information from different authors(sources),  evaluating arguments and evidence, and reading reports in the form of contextual summary on certain topic from multiple sources.