learning summary
COURSE OBJECTIVES The course is designed to help you:
1. Acquire skills in professional and academic writing.
2. Become familiar with basic library research (in economics) and format of term papers, abstracts and APA citation.
3. Become sensitive to traditional and emerging forms of plagiarism.
4. Develop skills and confidence in collaborative research and writing.
5. Develop confidence in oral presentation.
6. Strengthen time management skills through report writing on deadline.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1.I can write an effective memo that backgrounds the reader, summarizes key issues, and recommends a clear course of action to be taken. My memos are concise and can connect with the interests and needs of memo recipients. I can apply the basic format memo to academic and professional tasks.
2. I can write a proposal that describes a project, its purpose and function.
3. l am familiar with the basic format of academic paper writing and can write an abstract and cite references in APA style. I understand the primacy of peer reviewed references.
4. I have accessed the university library and conducted basic searches.
5. I understand plagiarism and can recognize traditional misappropriation of others' work and modern hazards of plagiarism from digitization of content.
6. I can propose an idea effectively in a memo with a profit-and-loss statement.
7. I can develop proper Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.