The students of English 102 course improve their study skills (such as efficient reading techniques, eliciting information) and critical thinking skills and go through the processes of reading and analyzing texts, planning, drafting and editing. Students working on text exploration and academic writing simultaneously produce academic writing (paragraph or essay) both in their homework assignments and their exams.
Reference link: ING102
Corporate structures, writing C.V. and letter of application, analyzing advertisements, interview with a franchise, or franchisee issues on environmentalism, debate on gold mining and nuclear power generation issues on banking and stock exchange, debate on Turkish economy in relation with I.M.F and European Union.
Reference link: ING103B
English 201 is a course designed to teach the organizational and critical thinking skills necessary for logical written expression. The course focuses on writing a research paper of at least 1500 words based on sound scholarly sources on a topic of interest related to students field by conforming to the APA standards of writing without committing plagiarism. In this course, the whole research process is taught step by step through skills including research, source selection, choice of topic, construction and defense of a thesis statement, citing sources, outlining, organizing a References page and note taking. Critical elements of the course are instruction in paraphrasing and summarizing techniques, use of quotations and the incorporation of these research findings in the paper together with the inclusion of personal comments, avoidance of plagiarism and conforming to ethical rules.
Reference link: ING201