School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    English Grammar for Professionals
  • Unit Code

    ENG1060
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Debra Lynn DUDEK

Description

Professionals who write need to be able to construct sentences and paragraphs using appropriate styles for specific purposes. An advanced understanding of grammar underpins the ability to write quickly and effectively. This unit looks at the building blocks of English sentences and paragraphs to provide the foundation for successful professional writing or teaching.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LST1060

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and correct common grammatical and punctuation errors.
  2. Discuss variation in language, such as genre, style and register.
  3. Identify and apply key grammatical terms employed in talking about English, including the word, sentence and paragraph levels.
  4. Recognise and apply language-based means of combining sentences into paragraphs and larger texts.
  5. Recognise simple, compound and complex sentences and apply these in writing.

Unit Content

  1. Common errors in writing and punctuation.
  2. English clause types and simple, compound and complex sentences.
  3. Key concepts and terms in the study and description of English sentences and paragraphs.
  4. Key grammatical features of English such as: transitive, intransitive and ditransitive clauses; relative and adverbial clauses; declarative, interrogative and imperative; active and passive; noun groups and their expansion; fronting and other word order variations; prepositional phrases; number; count and non-count nouns; negation; modality; conditional; etc.
  5. Paragraph structure and linking in English.
  6. Sentence linking and cohesion.
  7. Tense in English.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshop sessions and discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseWeekly Formative grammar quizzes and exercises.50%
ExaminationSummative examination 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    English Grammar for Professionals
  • Unit Code

    ENG1060
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Debra Lynn DUDEK

Description

Professionals who write need to be able to construct sentences and paragraphs using appropriate styles for specific purposes. An advanced understanding of grammar underpins the ability to write quickly and effectively. This unit looks at the building blocks of English sentences and paragraphs to provide the foundation for successful professional writing or teaching.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LST1060

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and correct common grammatical and punctuation errors.
  2. Discuss variation in language, such as genre, style and register.
  3. Identify and apply key grammatical terms employed in talking about English, including the word, sentence and paragraph levels.
  4. Recognise and apply language-based means of combining sentences into paragraphs and larger texts.
  5. Recognise simple, compound and complex sentences and apply these in writing.

Unit Content

  1. Common errors in writing and punctuation.
  2. English clause types and simple, compound and complex sentences.
  3. Key concepts and terms in the study and description of English sentences and paragraphs.
  4. Key grammatical features of English such as: transitive, intransitive and ditransitive clauses; relative and adverbial clauses; declarative, interrogative and imperative; active and passive; noun groups and their expansion; fronting and other word order variations; prepositional phrases; number; count and non-count nouns; negation; modality; conditional; etc.
  5. Paragraph structure and linking in English.
  6. Sentence linking and cohesion.
  7. Tense in English.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshop sessions and discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseWeekly Formative grammar quizzes and exercises.50%
ExaminationSummative examination 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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