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Communication and Critical Analysis 1B
UoS Code ECOF1002
Credit points 6
Offered Semester 1
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Prohibitions ECOF1001
Assumed Knowledge
Additional Information This unit of study is meant for students from a non-English speaking background.
Lectures 2 hour tutorial per week
Assessment Two essays; Seminar paper; Learning journal; Summary exercise and class participation.
Description This unit aims to enhance oral and written communication skills and in the process provide a greater understanding of the philosophy underlying academic discourse. Weekly classes are oriented around a progressive series of tasks which consider academic texts in context and require learners to understand, analyse and produce spoken and written texts appropriate to the context of academic English. The contextualisation of these tasks is the philosophical aspects of critical analysis. Themes, such as the difference between convention, fact, opinion and preference; deductive and inductive proof; validity and truth; evidence; and the ethics of persuasion, are the basis on which the skills are taught.