1. Lecturer: Dr. David Ako Odoi
UGRC 210 Academic Writing 2
Lecturer: Dr. David Ako Odoi
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2. Copyright
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Stella Boateng Norgbe
David Ako Odoi
Evershed Kwasi Amuzu
Language Centre
University of Ghana
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Module Titles
Unit 1 Overview of Grammer
Unit 2 Methods of Developing a Controlling Idea in a Paragraph
Unit 3 Reading II Practical Session
Unit 4 Presentations
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4. Editorial Board
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5. Acknowledgement
It is a pleasure to thank all those who have helped us in one way or another during the preparation of this course book. Special thanks are due to the Centre for Distance Education, University of Ghana, for not only giving us the opportunity/challenge to write this course book but also for ensuring that we get the necessary training and motivation to do our best. We also wish to thank Dr. Gordon Adika, the Director of the Language Centre, for giving generously of his time whenever we needed to consult him on aspects of the book. Many thanks also go to Dr. Vera Arhin, who was part of this team initially, for the quality of contributions she continued to make and for the generosity with which she opened her personal library to us: indeed, many of the references cited in this work were borrowed from her library. We have not forgotten the rest of the (teaching as well as non-teaching) staff at the Language Centre; we thank each one of them for being there for us whenever we needed their assistance. Last but not least, many thanks go to our families; they have been wonderfully patient throughout the many hours (and sometimes days) we had to spend away from them in order to get this job done. We, however, reserve our ultimate praise to God: thank You!

6. Contents
Course Overview v
Unit Overview of Grammar
Introduction
Section 1 Subject Verb Agreement
Section 2 Shits and Mixed constructions
Section 3 Sentence Fragments
Section 4 Run on Sentences/Comma Splices
Section 5 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Section 6 Commonly confusing Words
Assignment 1
Unit summary
Unit 2 Methods of Developing a Controlling Idea in a Paragraph
Section 1 The Process Approach to Writing
Section 2 Writing Introductions
Section 3 Writing Body Paragraphs
Section 4 Writing Conclusions
Section 5 Revising your essays
Section 6 Editing Common Errors
Assignment 2

7. Unit 3 Reading Techniques
Introduction
Section 1 Process Analysis
Section 2 Narration
Section 3 Description
Section 4 Cause and Effect
Section 5 Comparison and contrast Pattern
Assignment 3
Unit summary
Unit 4 Presentation
Section Types of Presentations: Presenting to Inform
Section Types of Presentations: Presenting to
Persuade Source in Essays
Section Preparing for your Presentation
Section 4 Selecting and Arranging Content
Section 5 Speaking on Special Occasions
Assignment 4

8. Course Overview
Welcome to the Academic Writing course!
This course is to help you with the communication skills that will enable you to succeed in writing good essays in the academic discourse community. This community consists of yourself, me, your colleague students, your tutors and lecturers, and the rest of the university community and those beyond. The community demands that you think critically. For this reason, you will need to acquire some skills. I will take you through strategies for reading and writing paragraphs as well as taking and making effective notes. All these strategies, and others, will help you write good academic essays.
The course is divided into four units. In Unit 1, I will introduce you to the Overview of Grammar. In Unit 2, you will continue with Methods of Developing a Controlling Idea in a Paragraph. This time I will teach you the different methods that writers use to clarify the idea they wish to express in a paragraph. Then, in Unit 3 I will teach you ways to achieve effective reading to cope with undergraduate studies. In Unit 4 I shall introduce you to aspects of public speaking and making presentations. The following, then, is the outline of the course:

9. Unit 1 Overview of Grammar
Unit 2 Methods of Developing a Controlling Idea in a Paragraph
Unit 3 Reading II Practical Session
Unit 4 Presentations
It is important that you follow the units step by step. This is because the course has been designed in a way to guide you to acquire one skill before another. You will experience through taking this course that writing and speaking make an exciting Journey.
Best of luck as you begin your journey.

10. Objectives
By the end of this course, you should be able to read and identify a writer’s main ideas from the details he provides
write well-structured paragraphs and academic essays in which you guide readers to follow your train of thought effortlessly
write good notes that you may use in organizing and writing your essays
acknowledge sources of information in essays
edit and proofread essays

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