English for Chemistry Foundation 2 (2024) (XHM-053)
Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts
This course facilitates student understanding and production of a variety of academic genres in the field of Chemistry. Through this course students will acquire the basic knowledge for writing abstracts, laboratory reports, summaries, visual abstracts and scientific presentations. As well as effectively communicating chemical content in English, students will be given a wide range of opportunities to present analytical data, compare techniques and work in groups to solve problems or discuss case studies relevant to the field of Academic and Technical Writing. The course exposes students to a variety of written, oral and digital genres, as well as a large amount of terminology (special vocabulary) used in the disciplines of General, Environmental, Analytical Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The students, after successful completion of the course, will be able to apply the following
- apply basic principles so as to write a laboratory report in English
- be familiar with and use basic chemical terms appropriately (both orally and in writing)
- design scientific presentation slides and give a scientific presentation
- work in groups in order to meet goals for the completion of a group and individual project which requires skills including coordination, time-management, critical comparison of work by peers, evaluation of their and peer work based on scientific standards i.e. author guidelines in a journal.
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This course facilitates student understanding and production of a variety of academic genres in the field of Chemistry. Through this course students will acquire the basic knowledge for writing abstracts, laboratory reports, summaries, visual abstracts and scientific presentations. As well as effectively communicating chemical content in English, students will be given a wide range of opportunities to present analytical data, compare techniques and work in groups to solve problems or discuss case studies relevant to the field of Academic and Technical Writing. The course exposes students to a variety of written, oral and digital genres, as well as a large amount of terminology (special vocabulary) used in the disciplines of General, Environmental, Analytical Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The students, after successful completion of the course, will be able to apply the following
- apply basic principles so as to write a laboratory report in English
- be familiar with a
This course facilitates student understanding and production of a variety of academic genres in the field of Chemistry. Through this course students will acquire the basic knowledge for writing abstracts, laboratory reports, summaries, visual abstracts and scientific presentations. As well as effectively communicating chemical content in English, students will be given a wide range of opportunities to present analytical data, compare techniques and work in groups to solve problems or discuss case studies relevant to the field of Academic and Technical Writing. The course exposes students to a variety of written, oral and digital genres, as well as a large amount of terminology (special vocabulary) used in the disciplines of General, Environmental, Analytical Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The students, after successful completion of the course, will be able to apply the following
- apply basic principles so as to write a laboratory report in English
- be familiar with a
Course Description
Course Syllabus
Week 1 Induction week; Acids and Bases; Redox reactions
Week 2 How to write a Lab report; Scientific Presentations
Week 3 Separation Techniques; Thin Layer Chromatography
Week 4 Separation Techniques (part two)
Week 5 Water Treatment Methods; Water as a solvent in organic chemistry
Week 6 Polymers
Week 7 Experimental language; do’s and dont’s ; academic style and conventions
Week 8 Electrochemistry, electrodeposition, batteries
Week 9 Enzymes and big biomolecules
Week 10 Introduction to Organic Chemistry; nomenclature and properties of functional groups
Week 11 DNA Replication Processes & Steps; Transcription & Translation; Mock test
Week 12 Presentations of Projects and peer-feedback
Week 1 Induction week; Acids and Bases; Redox reactions
Week 2 How to write a Lab report; Scientific Presentations
Week 3 Separation Techniques; Thin Layer Chromatography
Week 4 Separation Techniques (part two)
Week 5 Water Treatment Methods; Water as a solvent in organic chemistry
Week 6 Polymers
Week 7 Experimental language; do’s and dont’s ; academic style and conventions
Week 8 Electrochemistry, electrodeposition, batteries
Week 9 Enzymes and big biomolecules
Week 10 Introduction to Organic Chemistry; nomenclature and properties of functional groups
Week 11 DNA Replication Processes & Steps; Transcription & Translation; Mock test
Week 12 Presentations of Projects and peer-feedback
In English 2, there are options (Choose what seems more appropriate for you):
- Compulsory Final Exam (online quiz_ bring your own lapttop or use the computer lab (85%)
- Optional Presentation of a Chemistry paper (15%) or
- Optional Lab report (15%) or
- Optional mid-term exam (This exam is a 3 stage exam which accounts for 15%) DATE 29th March 2024
- Optional Samples of work in class (for 9 weeks at least) (10%)
Final Exam
- The online test will be on Moodle (e-learn) containing multiple choice and many open-ended questions (90 min). Questions are randomised and they turn up in a different order for each student. Also, from a pool of 300 hundred questions students need to have answered 60. The time provided is very limited. (Note: Students who failed last year were those who spent time looking for the answers online and then there was no time left to complete the whole quiz. Others failed because they hoped that they can help each other in groups but this is not possible due to limited time and random order. The only way to pass this exam is to have studied).
Online quiz content
- Technical vocabulary (Check out the glossary at the end of your textbooks)
- Academic vocabulary
- Academic style and Scientific Conventions
- Grammar
- Reading comprehension of short paragraphs
- Evaluation of Powerpoint slides and Presentation narratives
Writing a lab report
if you opt to write a lab report, you can do so for the experimental work you conducted during week 4 and/or 5 in your undegraduate Chemistry lab (word limit 1000 words). Follow guidelines here
https://www.monash.edu/learnhq/write-like-a-pro/annotated-assessment-samples/science/science-lab-report
Calendar
Announcements
- Tuesday May 14, 2024
- Monday May 13, 2024
- Thu March 21, 2024
- Thu March 21, 2024
- Friday March 8, 2024
