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Seminar Syllabus

Syllabus for the course of Seminar, MA Students of English Literature
Instructor: Kareem Lowaymi Mutlaq
Contact: klmutlaq@gmail.com
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Course Description
The main objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the basic introductory
tenets of academic and critical writing in literature and enable them to develop competence in
academic writing in a more focused manner by responding critically to different types of
literary texts.
Course Objective:
- To enable the students find a topic for research
- To help students write an academic essay on the topic
- To help students write a thesis proposal using their topic
Sources:
- How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students
- MLA Handbook, Ninth edition; The Modern Language Association of America
Course Schedule
Week One: Introductory Session: writing in literary studies
Week Two: Choosing a topic for your dissertation essay
Week Three: Primary & secondary sources
Week Four: Writing the first draft
\Week Five: Writing the argument
Week Six: Writing the argument continued
Week Seven: Quotating and plagiarism
Week Eight: Citation Style (MLA)
Week Nine: What is a dissertation?
Week Ten: Introduction to the dissertation
Week Eleven: Statement of problem
Week Twelve: Significant of study
Week Thirteen: Research Methodology
Week Fourteen: Research Methodology continued
Week Fifteen: Tentative organization of dissertation
Week Sixteen: Thesis proposal sample review