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Welcoming Presentation

EPAC

Hanane Benali Taouis Elena Montiel Ponsado Jelena Bobkina Patricia martin chozas Ruth Botran

INDEX

What is epac ?

grade distribution

TEAMs

THANKS

SECTIOn 1

1. what is EPAC?

IT IS NOT AN ENGLISH COURSE

1.1. epac

· English for professional and academic communication. · A course to help improve your use of English in specific genres. · You will learn how to create a pentachart, a research proposal document, and how to make a successful presentation. ·This implies that we should work on the following content:

1.2. Course content

1. Academic writing:

• Sentence skills
• Paragraph writing
• Research proposal structure

2. Oral presentations fundamentals:

• Informative speech structure
• Persuasive speech structure
• Verbal and non-verbal Communication skills

• Audience interaction

SECTIOn 2

2- Grade distribution

Progressive evaluation

Progressive evaluation

Research Proposal document 20% :

• Background and Motivation / State-of-the-Art
• Innovation/Research idea Description/Technical
• Implementation Methodology/Path forward References

Length: 1500 words (excluding references)

Written exam 45%

Exam content

1. Academic writing theory and practice 2. Fundamentals of Oral presentations.

Exam format: 1. reading and listening comprehension 2. Multiple choice 3. matching 4. filling the gaps

Oral presentation 20%

It is the speech presentation of your research proposal (it should be done in pairs/groups. (face to face).

Speech

Moodel tasks 5%:Reading and listening comprehension tasks.

Attendance and class particpation

10%

Tutors´ criteria

All parts should be passed with a minimum of 5

SECTIOn 2

2- Grade distribution

Final evaluation

Final evaluation

45%

Written exam (the same as progressive evaluation students)

20%

Written research proposal document

5%

Moodle tasks (The same as progressive evaluation students)

Oral presentation of the research proposal (video format)

20%

Attendance and class participation

0%

SECTIOn 3

3- Team-up to start working

Both progressive and final evaluation students

TEAMs: check Moodle to sign-up in the excelsheet for group forming

Team leader

Group member 2

Group member 1

You should all belong to a group

Choose a team leader

No individual work is accepted (RP and OP)

END OF THE PRESENTATION

THANKYOU!