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On this course, medical students will build a foundation in the academic English to understand and discuss medical issues. It continues students’ development as listeners, readers, speakers and writers of English. Students will continue to enlarge and reinforce their medical vocabulary and improve their pronunciation of medical terms. Also, they will focus more on more complex language learning tasks. These include reading magazine or journal articles, listening to TED talks and short lectures, in-class discussions, presentations and writing practices. Assessments will include one vocabulary test, one group discussion, one graded class presentation, one listening exam, one reading exam, two writing assignments.
Great Writing 5 is the last step of the Great Writing Series. The goal of this series is to help the learners both to produce a presentable product and to understand the composing process. While the Great Writing Foundations and the Great Writing 1-4 teaches grammar, vocabulary, spelling, sentences, paragraphs and essays, Great Writing 5 focuses more on advanced essays, including research papers. There are 8 units in this book, covering the components of an essay, steps of the writing process, skills of paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, and citing sources, different types of essays such as comparison, cause-effect, and argument essays, and how to write a research paper.
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of medical terminology. Chapters One through Three provide a foundation for building medical vocabulary. Chapters Four through Sixteen organize content by body systems, presenting related word parts, terms, and abbreviations. It creates a distinction between terms built from word parts, which are usually based on Greek or Latin, and those terms NOT built from word parts, which are based on eponyms, acronyms, or terms from modern language. The book concludes with a series of appendices designed to extend student learning as desired. This eleventh edition features new term lists, including Laboratory Terms and Diagnostic Imaging Terms.
