COURSE OUTLINE

(Online Learning Program)

Course ID Course title Credits

Critical Reading and Writing
ANH218DE04 03
Kỹ năng Đọc & Viết Biện luận

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Decision No……./QĐ-ĐHHS dated ……)
A. Course Specifications:

Video periods Online periods Webinar Self-study periods

(1) (2) (3) (4)
Depending on the
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plan of the program

B. Other related Subjects:

Other related Subjects Course ID Course title
Prerequisites:
ANH219DE02 Academic Writing
1. or or
ANH117DE01 English Reading and Writing 3
Co-requisites: none
Other requirements: none

C. Course Description:
Getting involved in the academic world at higher educational level, learners are believed to be in bad
need of enhancing their knowledge and shaping their critical mind to make a good preparation for
their studying path and their future careers. To satisfy this need, this course provides the learners with
a wide set of practical and efficient approaches to acquire critical reading, critical writing, and
researching skills. Additionally, students will have an opportunity to read extensively and critically
in this course to gain useful skills and techniques in preparation for writing academic reports,
especially Project 1.

D. Course Objectives:
Course Objectives
No.
This course aims to:

Develop students’ critical reading, writing, and researching skills in the academic field
1.
through evaluating and critiquing sources;
Equip students with the skills and techniques necessary for conducting secondary research
2.
and in their own subject area;

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 Get students to critically self-evaluate their written work and develop this criticality through
3.
discussion with their classmates and teachers.
Help the students to have the capacity of summarizing, synthesizing, and paraphrasing
4.
academic sources;

E. Learning Outcomes:

Learning outcomes Linked to

No. PLOs
Upon the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1 Utilize various sources to gather data for a research paper PLO5(R)
Employ various skills to incorporate ideas and information into their text PLO5(R)
2
through paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing to avoid plagiarism PL06(M)
Demonstrate the knowledge of writing different sections of a secondary PLO4(R)
3
research paper PL06(M)
Learn about academic conventions for referencing and compiling a PLO5(R)
4
bibliography
Read, analyze, and synthesize articles to generate the language and concepts PLO2(R)
5
needed for their own essays PLO8(R)
PLO4(R)
6 Complete a research proposal PL06(M)
PLO8(R)

F. Instructional Modes:
The course is run online via HSU e-learning platform (M-learning). A wide range of instructional
modes are designed to promote declarative and procedural knowledge, student engagement, and
collaboration in a supportive learning environment. Students are encouraged to watch video clips for
the lesson then complete the exercises or practices in each lesson.
Generally, teaching and learning might be conducted in the following way:
A. Video clips: Students will be introduced to new concepts and skills via clips uploaded on
M-learning.
B. Online Meeting: Students will participate in discussing activities or completing tasks
designed to activate the concepts presented in video clips or reading materials. There will
be one to two sessions during the course for students to discuss with lecturers.
C. Self-learning & forum: learners will perform their self-learning then share their knowledge,
skills, and opinions in the forum of the Course.

Teaching method Periods Note

1 Video 39
2 Online meeting 6
3 Assginments & Assessments 15
Total 60

G. Textbooks and teaching aids:

1. Required Textbooks and Materials: Compiled from the following
- Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students (4th ed.).
Routledge.
- Klimova, B. F. (2015). Teaching English abstract writing effectively. Procedia-Social
and Behavioral Sciences, 186, 908-912.
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 - Silvia, P. J. (2015). Write it up: Practical strategies for writing and publishing journal
articles. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/14470-000
2. Suggested Course Materials
- McCormack, J., & Slaght, J. (2009). Extended writing & research skills (1st ed.).
University of Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd.
- Lester, J. D., & Lester, J. D. (2015). Writing research papers: A complete guide (15th ed.).
Boston: Peason.
- Wallwork, A. (2016). English for writing research papers. NY: Springer.
3. Helpful websites
- http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/312.htm
This website contains resources on scholarly writing, grammar, and APA style with
quizzes and exercises for each section in a research paper. Through our site, you can also
access Grammarly (an automated grammar tutor) and Paper Reviews to help perfect your
writing by uploading your texts to be revised. Additionally, it frequently leads webinars
(virtual seminars) on topics in scholarly writing.
- http://academic-writing.wikispaces.com/Exercises
This website provides exercises on reporting – paraphrase, summary and synthesis.
- http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
This website contains information about procedures of writing research papers, including
quizzes and exercises.
- http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
This is a very good website, including many exercises in various writing aspects.

H. Assessment Methods:

1. Description of assessment tasks

A. Formative assessment 1 - Quizzes (30%)
Students are required to paraphrase, to summarize or synthesize some given texts or write a list of
references based on the books or articles given or correct mistakes in reference entries.
Assessment Criteria - Content (40%)
- Thoroughness of summarizing, paraphrasing (30%)
- Language use (30%)

B. Formative assessment 2 – Literature review (30%)

Students are required to choose a topic of their preferences, review a minimum of three journal
articles and write a report reviewing the main points of these papers, employing the skills learned
from weeks 1 to 8 including paraphrasing, summarizing, criticizing, synthesizing, referencing and in
text-citation.
Task length 500-800 words
Assessment Criteria - Structure (30%): background to the issues, clear thesis statement
- Content (50%): main ideas/arguments are clearly developed &
supported by relevant references; and there is evidence of synthesis of
sources.
- Reference (20%): There are sufficient references used, and references
used are correctly acknowledged in the text.
C. Summative assessment – Research Proposal (40%)
Students are required to submit an individual research proposal, demonstrating their understanding of
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 the main components of a research proposal and applying the techniques, skills that they have learned
throughout the course.
Task length 1500-1800 words
Assessment Criteria - Essential components of a research proposal, including: the title page,
the introduction (the rationale of the study, the objectives of the study,
research questions, limitations of the study), the literature review, the
method (population, instruments, data collection, tentative procedure of
data analysis), references (60%).
- Language use (40%)

2. Summary of assessment
Components Assessment Forms Percentage Schedule CLOs
Formative Quizzes: 30% Week 8 CLO 1,2,4&5
assessment 1 - Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Synthesizing
- Citation& references
Formative Writing a literature review 30% Week 13 CLO 1,2&5
assessment 2
Final Exam Research proposal 40% Week 15 CLO 1,2,3,4&6
(Summative
assessment)
100%

I. Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a fundamental value that affects the quality of teaching, learning, and
research at a university. To ensure the maintenance of academic integrity at Hoa Sen University,
students are required to:
1. Work independently on individual assignments
Collaborating on individual assignments is considered cheating.
2. Avoid plagiarism
Plagiarism is an act of fraud that involves the use of ideas or words of another person without proper
attribution. Students will be accused of plagiarism if they:
i. Copy in their work one or more sentences from another person without proper citation.
ii. Rephrase, paraphrase, or translate another person’s ideas or words without proper
attribution.
iii. Reuse their own assignments, in whole or in part, and submit them for another class.
3. Work responsibly within a working group
In cooperative group assignments, all students are required to stay on task and contribute equally to
the projects. Group reports should clearly state the contribution of each group member.
Any acts of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of zero for the task at hand and/or
immediate failure of the course, depending on the seriousness of the fraud. Please consult Hoa
Sen University’s Policy on Plagiarism at http://thuvien.hoasen.edu.vn/chinh-sach-phong-tranh-
dao-van. To ensure the maintenance of academic integrity, the university asks that students report
cases of academic dishonesty to the teacher and/or the Dean. The names of those students will be
kept anonymous.
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 I. Teaching Staff:
Email, Phone number, Office Position
No. Professor’s name
Office location hours
1 Trần Văn Dương, PhD [email protected] course coordinator
2 Nguyễn Thị Châu Anh, PhD

J. Learning Schedule:
Week/ CLOs
Topics References Homework
Meeting
1 - Course orientation [Video 1] Instructor’s handout CLO2
- Understanding academic articles [Video 2] Bailey (2015:3-8)
2 - Finding academic sources [Video 3] Bailey (2015:9-15) CLO1
- APA referencing style [Video 4] APA (2019:198-215)
3 Online meeting 1: choosing a research topic List of topics CLO2,5&6
suggested by the
instructor
4 - Components of a paper [Video 5] Instructor’s handout CLO1
CLO2
CLO5
5 - Avoiding plagiarism [Video 6] Bailey (2015:30-35) CLO2
- Citation and quotation [Video 7] Bailey (2015:43-49) CLO4

6 - Paraphrasing [Video 8] Bailey (2015:50-55) CLO1

- Summarizing [Video 9] Bailey (2015:57-61) CLO5
7 - References and quotations [Video 10] Bailey (2015:62-71) CLO3
- Synthesizing sources [Video 11] Bailey (2015:72-76)
Bailey (2015:77-82)
CLO
8 Formative assessment 1
1,2,4&5
9 - Writing Abstracts [Video 12] Klimova (2015:908- CLO3
912)

10 Online meeting 2: Guidelines for writing Instructor’s handout CLO2,5&6

the research proposal (final exam)
11 - Research proposal: Overview [Video 13]
- Writing the Introduction
12 - Writing literature review [Video 14] Silvia (2015) 107-122 CLO3
13 Formative assessment 2 CLO 1,2&5
14 Writing the methodology [Video 15] Silvia (2015) 37-156 CLO2,5&6
CLO
15 Final exam submission
1,2,3,4&6

Course Designer Program Director Vice President

(Signature and the full name) (Signature and the full name) (Signature and the full name)

Trần Văn Dương, PhD Quách Thị Vân Trang, MA

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