Progressive Skills in English (Combined Skills) 4

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The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English.

Listening skills include:
note-taking, using scientific numbering
using lecture handouts effectively
understanding a speaker's arguments
understanding concessions
recognizing start / end of digressions

Speaking skills include:
clarifying issues in a discussion
raising / dealing with an objection
expressing and dealing with uncertainty
summarizing
referring to research

Reading skills include:
highlighting key points
recognizing and recording sources
making inferences
reacting to texts
understanding sentence relationships

Writing skills include:
linking sentences
restating (avoiding plagiarism)
supporting statements with evidence
writing about graphs
using lexical cohesions