C-2002-06228-A 中級英文寫作 Fall 2010 Mon. E1-E2 ES Instructor: Joyce Chen e-mail: 068477@mail.fju.edu.tw
OBJECTIVE
This course aims at guiding students through the process of writing paragraphs and essays. Five modes of essay including: Classification,
Comparison/Contrast, Cause/Effect, Process, and Persuasion will be studied in class and students will learn to develop well-written paragraphs to coherent, consistent, and well-organized essays (with five paragraphs). Students will also learn synthesis skills: quotation, paraphrase and summary so that they can weave secondary information into their essays. MLA style of research writing method will also be introduced and practiced in class. Eventually, students can conduct a more sophisticated research in which one’s own arguments are logically supported by facts and opinions from reliable sources.
REQUIREMENT
Attendance: Coming to class every time and on time means more than professional attitude of a student, it also means respect to your classmates and teacher. Students who are late more10 minutes after class begins will be marked “late”; those who are late more than 30 minutes will be marked “absent”. Each unexcused absence will take 1 point away from the final grade.
Students with 3 unexcused or (6 excused )absences will automatically get an F for the course.
Students who never miss any meeting get 2 extra points for the final grades.
Sick leave: Please take good care of yourself. A medical report from Doctor is needed for a sick leave. Inform the teacher by yourself if you need a leave.
Asking for a leave for others is unacceptable.
Homework: All paper assignments should be typed out. Please follow the formats in MLA Handbook. Submit assignments to iCan. Late homework is not graded.
Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. A copied homework will be graded 0.
Huikao (會考): According to the Department Policy, students who fail Huikao need to take this composition course again. For those who pass the exam, the scores of Huikao will be counted for 10% of their composition grades for that semester, and they may still fail the course if the teachers think they need to work on their writing of the same level for one more year.
Cooperation and respect are essential in this course. Be polite to your classmates
and instructor.
Keep track of your performance in class. Don’t throw away your drafts. Students are very welcomed to check scores, attendance records, and etc. Please don’t wait till the last moment to do so.
TEXTBOOK
Dibello, Cathy, and 文庭澍. Composing Our World 《現代英文寫作教程》. Taipei:
Bookman, 2007. Print.
MLA Handbook for Writers for Research Papers, 7th
ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.
SOURCE OF HANDOUTS
Oshima, Alice and Ann Hogue. Writing Academic English. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Print.
GRADING POLICY
In-class Timed Writing 30%
Homework (drafts, journals, and essays and portfolio) 50%
Attendance 10%
Editing 10%
Tentative Schedule
Wee kDate Topic Activity Assignment 1 9/13 Orientation Editing symbols explanation Format of homework iCan test (Worksheet 1--2%)
2 9/20 Types of Sentences: Fatal Errors Sentence competition Peer-editing Sentences correction (Worksheet 2--4%)
3 9/27 Types of Sentences: style Sentence competition Peer-editing Sentences correction (Worksheet 3 --4%)
4 10/4 Paraphrase + Summary 1 from reading comprehension to comprehensible writing Literary texts practice (Worksheet 4 --4%)
5 10/11 Paraphrase +
Summary 2
MLA format—
Newspaper and its
website
Non-literary texts practice
(Worksheet 5 --4%)
6 10/18 Timed- Writing1
Paraphrase + Summary &
MLA format:
Newspaper and its website
P
review chapter 8
7 10/25 Conference and editing
Self-editing, peer- editing
Conference with T/TA
P
review chapter 9
8 11/1 Writing the essay 1
Analyze an essay:
topic, mode, thesis statement, key words, topic sentences
Locate the elements in the sample essay
(Worksheet 6 --2%)
9 11/8
Mid- term week
Writing the essay 2
Supporting details:
facts and opinions Transitions
Borrowed information:
quotation, paraphrase, summary, in-text
citation, works cited
Locate the elements in the sample essay
(Worksheet 7 --2%)
10 11/15 Writing the essay 3
Writing process:
1→2A/2B→2A +2B Outlining, Drafting, Editing
Complete the outline (Worksheet 8 --4%)
11 11/23 Process
Analysis Essay
Planning and writing MLA format: Book
Step 1: topic, outline, thesis statement
(Worksheet 9 --4%) 12 11/29 Process
Analysis Essay
Planning and writing MLA format: Book
Step 2A: body paragraphs Or Step 2B: introduction + conclusion
(Worksheet 10 --4%)
13 12/6 Holiday Holiday Step 3: 2A +2B
+Synthesis (Worksheet 11--4%) 14 12/13 Timed
Writing 2
Write a process essay base on the reference
P
review chapter 13
15 12/20 Conference and editing
Self-editing, peer- editing
P
review Chapter 13
Conference with T/TA 16 12/27 Classification Planning and writing
MLA format review
Step 1: topic, outline, thesis statement
(Worksheet 12 --4%)
17 1/4 Classification Planning and writing MLA format review Step 2A: body paragraphs Or Step 2B: introduction + conclusion (Worksheet 13--4%)
18 1/11 Timed Writing 3 Write a classification essay base on the reference Step 3: 2A +2B +synthesis (Worksheet 14--4%)
SPRING 2011 GRADING POLICY
In-class Timed Writing 20%Homework (drafts, journals, and essays and portfolio) 40%
Portfolio 10%
Editing 10%
Attendance 10%
Huikao 10%
Tentative Schedule: 2
ndsemester
Wee k
Date Topic Assignment
1 2/22 In-text citation and direct/indirect quotation Rewrite your
classification essay with proper in-text citation and
quotations (WS1—4%) 2 3/1 Comparison / Contrast Essay
MLA format: Journal and magazine
1
stdraft (WS2—4%) 3 3/8 Comparison / Contrast Essay
MLA format: Journal and magazine
2
nddraft (WS3—4%) 4 3/15 Comparison / Contrast Essay
MLA format: Journal and magazine
3
rddraft
(WS4—4%)
5 3/22 Timed Writing 1
6 3/29 Conference+ peer-editing & self editing review Chapter 15 P
7 4/5 Spring Break review Chapter 15 P
8 4/12 Cause/ Effect Essay 1
stdraft
(WS5—4%)
9 4/19
Mid- term
