English in the Media - Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

This course explores various texts taken from media materials such as newspapers/ online news, magazines and advertisements/ brochures. This course looks at the language forms and structures of these texts and also the different writing styles. In addition, this course raises awareness of cultural and current issues pertaining to society concerns as a whole that may be embedded in the context. This is to assist students to understand various writing styles that will facilitate them in building their language knowledge and skills in English.