Universität Wien

030660 KU Mastering Academic Reading (2023W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 09.10. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 16.10. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 23.10. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 30.10. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 06.11. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 13.11. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 20.11. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 27.11. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 04.12. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 11.12. 09:30 - 11:00 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 08.01. 09:30 - 10:30 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 15.01. 09:30 - 10:30 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Monday 22.01. 09:30 - 10:30 Hörsaal U13 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Mastering academic reading course is designed for students who want to master essential study skills to support their future study.

This course provides law students with strategies, practices and activities for reading academic texts more effectively, for taking notes and summarizing.

The course will be given once a week so that there are thirteen units in total. Time allocation of each unit is ninety minutes (an hour and a half). This course implements an experiential learning in which students experience the application and practice of reading skills. Since reading is closely related to writing, writing tasks are required to check for students’ comprehension of the reading.

There are various topics of academic texts discussed during this course, especially related to legal issues. Legal topic is mostly given in order to familiarize students with their study field.

In-class activities will include the SQ3R (survey, question, read, recall, review) reading and study system, mind mapping, marking up the text, charting and dialogic journal methods. All assignments are designed in individual work.

In addition, students will engage in peer review and self-evaluation of their own work, as well as meet with the lecturer for feedback and guidance to master the fundamental tools to succeed in law school.

Assessment and permitted materials

Assessments will be through a variety of methods including

10% Individual Assignment 1 Reflective essays
20% Individual Assignment 2 Mind mapping
30% Individual Assignment 3 Article review/Dialogic Journal
10% Individual Assignment 4 Summary
30% Individual Assignment 5 Literature review

Total: 100%
There will be no final exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This course is designed to help students enhance their reading effectiveness (read with a purpose, with a plan and with concentration) and reading efficiency (skimming in previewing, scanning for research and study, identifying the function of the text).

Students should finish the course with a strong understanding of how reading can improve information processing, help with completing a written assignment, and save lots of time.

By the end of the course, students will be able to improve their reading strategies for processing academic texts by the following criteria:

- modify the reading style based the reading purpose;
- apply appropriate reading strategies to grasp, comprehend and analyse the information in an academic text;
- use a mind map to write a summary.

Examination topics

All the content discussed and practised in the course, including student presentations and contributions; the mandatory reading and further materials as published on Moodle.

Reading list

1) Milkulecy, B.S. and Jeffries, L. (2007). Advanced Reading Power: Extensive reading, vocabulary building, comprehension skills, reading faster. New York, NY:Pearson Education.

2) Spears, D. (2013). Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary readings for collegestudents. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
https://bawar.net/data0/books/5a1a477f381a4/pdf/Improving_Reading_Skills.pdf

3) Yulinetskaya, Yu.V. and Kapinus O.L. (2019). Fundamentals of academic reading. Kherson, Gelvetica.

Useful websites:
https://eslbeck.wixsite.com/academic-reading

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Th 05.10.2023 16:26