With the background of internationalization of higher education, college students are required to possess basic academic literacy. Our online course is to help students study better in their majors and support them to do related researches in English communities. Designed specifically for students at university and on foundation courses, this integrated skill course develops language and real academic skills essential for successful university studies across disciplines. It doesn’t matter which major you are in; this course will be suitable and beneficial to you. Academic skills like how to take notes during listening to English lectures, how to raise questions in group discussion, how to paraphrase will be discussed in our course. Besides, essential English writing skills are always been the main part of EAP courses. Mini-lectures like how to write essays by classification, comparison and contrast, definition, how to summarize journal articles or books and so on will be elaborated. Academic rules like proper way of citation will also be part of our course. There will be a teaching group of ten from Xi’an Jiaotong University, who are experienced in teaching English for General Academic Purposes.
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Unit 2 How to Paraphrase?
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Unit 3 How to Write an Essay by Classification？
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Unit 4 Macrostructure of Academic Lecture
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Unit 5 How to Write a Definition?
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Unit 6 How to Describe a Concept?
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Unit 7 How to Write an Essay by Comparison and Contrast？
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Unit 8 How to Raise Questions like Socrates?
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Unit 9 How to Write a Cause-and-Effect Essay?
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Unit 10 How to Present a Graph?
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Unit 11 Process Writing
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Unit 12 Listening Between the Lines
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Unit 13 How to Write a Summary?
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Unit 14 Taking Notes in Lecture Listening
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Unit 15 A Reading Method--SQ3R
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Unit 16 How to Distinguish Fact and Opinion?
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Unit 17 Basic Structure of a Research Article
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Unit 18 Citations and References
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Unit 19 How to Argue Effectively in Speaking
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Unit 20 Hedging in Academic Writing
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Unit 21 Three Minute Thesis Presentation
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Unit 22 How to Get the Topic in Lecture Listening
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Unit 23 How to Write a Personal Statement
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