Teacher: Layla Saeed

This short course provides skills and strategies that are essential to write an effective introduction for an academic essay or research paper.

Teacher: Ms.Khulud Aljohani

Overall course objective and plans:

This short course aims to equip learners with the essential knowledge of sentence types, which will allow them to effectively generate ideas for their essays. The course is divided into two main sessions.

Session one will be an introduction to sentence types, which will:

- Define and explain the four basic sentence types (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).

- Provide examples of each sentence type to enable learners to differentiate between the different varieties of sentence structures and characteristics.

- Test the learners’ knowledge of sentence structure with a perfectly designed quiz.

Session two will shed light on the effect of sentence structures on forming and writing effective and engaging essays, which will:

- Explain the basic structure of an essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.

- Tackle each essay section and explain its role in conveying ideas effectively by using the different sentence structures discussed in session one.

- Provide an essay sample to enable learners to envision the main features discussed.

- Shed light on the effect of using transitions to organize and convey ideas clearly and effectively.

Teacher: Ralph Sleiman

Teacher: Shaimaa Helal

Teacher: Mohammed Elsafi

Teacher: Erada Almutairi

This course introduces various poetry devices such as imagery, metaphor, simile, and personification. William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” will be a focal point, allowing students to understand these concepts in practice.

Teacher: Haneen Shelbayeh

This short course is designed to enable students in literature at a foundation level to understand literature, the literary genres in general and the elements of short stories in particular. It targets developing students' analytical skills in reading, thinking and writing critically about literature. This course is the first part which covers basically fiction as a literary genre. The course is followed by another complimentary course that focuses on drama as another literary genre. 

Teacher: Ahmed Madani

Teacher: Mohsen Abbas

Teacher: Ghadeer Alsanad

This short course targets drama as a literary genre and aims at enabling students to analyze the literary texts critically through close reading. It defines drama as a specific mode of fiction and introduces its elements. Students will also be introduced to types of drama with examples for further self-study. 

Teacher: Mustafa Thabet

This course aims to make poetry easier to understand and less complicated by explaining its elements in a clear, simple, practical way.

Teacher: Hassan Mahdi

Welcome to the short course on "Research writing: Selecting the topic and formulating research questions and research aims"." This two-hour session is meticulously designed to equip you with the foundational skills necessary for successful academic research. Targeted specifically at graduates and conducted in English, this short course will guide you through the critical steps of identifying research topics, crafting clear research aims, and formulating precise research questions.

By the end of this short course, you will be to:

1. Identify the essential skills needed to write compelling and relevant research topics.

2. Write clear and focused research aims that provide direction and purpose to your study.

3. formulate research questions that are specific, measurable, and aligned with your research objectives.

Teacher: Dr. Fawziah Alharbi

Welcome to Introduction to Text Annotation, a course created by Assistant Professor Dr. Fawziah Alharbi at the Faculty of Language Studies - KSA, AOU. 

This course is designed for native and non-native English speakers who are interested in improving their close reading skills through text annotation. In this course, you will learn that the act of reading is similar to the act of meeting someone for the first time. When you meet someone for the first time, you pay attention to the way they are dressed, the way they act, and the way they present themselves to you. Reading the text is similar to meeting someone for the first time. This course aims to introduce you to the technique of Text Annotation and the multiple methods of annotating the text to help you skillfully interact with the text. Additionally, this course will sharpen your analytical skills and equip you with the necessary skills to improve how you approach the text.

Reading material and supplemental materials were provided for demonstration and educational purposes, not for commercial use.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the different ways to annotate the text by annotating a given text.

• Interact with the text through writing brief comments and questions in the margins.

• Integrate “comparative annotation” to the text by utilizing your background knowledge to enrich the text.

• Identify the theme and the development of the characters of a literary text by highlighting lines and writing comments in the margins.

• Implement “cultural and historical” context annotation to enrich your understanding of the text.

• Examine the text closely and critically by completing annotation activities of a text.

Course Prerequisite:

None