Saturday, 5 January 2013

Welcome to Reading Writing 6, term 1, 2013.

Thank you for registering for the Reading and Writing level 6 class in AUA's Academic English Program (AEP).

Over the next six weeks we will be working through two chapters in Hartmann's Quest 3 Reading and Writing [Quest] (2007), with which book everyone will already be familiar from level 5 in a previous term. As usual, we will be doing both a a bit more writing than Quest asks for and a bit more reading. We will do one chapter from each of Unit 3, "Literature", and Unit 4, "Ecology". If you would like a warm-up reading skill exercise, what clues to help us understand the word ecology do we get from economics, which we spent some time on in level 5?

And this being 2013, we will be using the tools that are normal in modern academic institutions: email, the internet and so on; academics and students no longer submit their written work on scraps of paper, and we won't be doing that either.

I hope that you find the class both enjoyable and challenging so that our six weeks together will be productive and pleasant.

And if you ever have any question about anything, please feel welcome to ask us in class, email me, or write it up here on our class blog (Peter, 2011).

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References
Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Peter. (2011, February). AEP, Blogging our class. Class Blog - AEP at AUA. Retrieved January 5, 2013 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/p/blogging-our-class.html

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