《英语写作》教学大纲Word文档格式.docx

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Attheendofthecourse,thestudentsshouldhavedemonstrated,throughtests,quizzes,readingassignments,classdiscussions,andwritingassignments,abilitytodothefollowing:

1.Analyzingawrittentextintermsofitspurpose

2.Writingunified,coherent,andcompleteparagraphs

3.Makingeachsentenceofaparagraphcontributetothemainidea

4.Arrangingsentencesofaparagraphinaclearlogicalorder

5.Linkingsentencesinaparagraphbymeansofusingpronouns,transitionalwordsandexpressions,andparallelstructure

6.Arrangingsentencesinaparagraphtoemphasizethemostimportantpointoftheparagraph

7.Varyingthestructureandlengthofsentencestomakeacompositionmorepleasingandeffective

8.Usingwordsthatareexact,idiomatic,andfresh

9.Avoidingwordiness

10.Avoidingmisplacedanddanglingmodifiers

11.Usingsubordinationinasentencetorelateideasmoreconciselyandeffectively

12.Avoidingneedlessshiftsintense,mood,voice,person,number,tone,andstyle

13.Recognizingsentencefragmentsandjudgingwhenandwhennottousethem

14.Recognizingandcorrectingineffectivecommasplicesand/orfusedsentences

15.Usingtheappropriateverbforms

16.Makingapronoununmistakablyrefertoandagreeinnumberandpersonwithitsantecedent

17.Capitalizing,italicizing,underlining,andabbreviatingwordsaccordingtostandardconventions

18.Usingcommas,periods,quotationmarks,exclamationpoints,colons,semicolons,apostrophes,dashes,parentheses,bracketsandslashescorrectlyandeffectively.

19.Usingadictionaryorcomputer“spellchecker”tospellwordscorrectly

20.UsingastandardcollegeEnglishhandbooktocorrecterrorsinwriting

CourseRequirements:

StudentsinallsectionsofBasicEnglishWritingwillberequiredtodothefollowing:

1.Writeeightparagraphs,twoofwhichwillbereadingresponses.

2.Completeallotherassignments.

MethodsofInstruction:

Instructionforthiscoursemaybeachievedthroughlectures,groupdiscussions,videos,classprojects,peerreviewworkshops,studentpresentations,readingandwriting.

Assessment:

Theinstructorswillusethefollowingmethodsofassessment:

1.Compositions

2.Testgrades

Theinstructorsmayalsouseoneormoreofthefollowingmethods:

1.Essaytests

2.Quizzes

3.Dailyassignments

4.Classattendance

5.Classpreparednessandparticipation

6.Journals

7.Portfolios

8.Oralreports

9.Student-teacherconferences

10.Attendanceatrequiredeventsoutsideofclass

11.WritingCenterassignments

CourseGrade:

Students’finalgradesaredeterminedbyanassessmentoftheirworkasreflectedintheiroverallperformance. 

Determiningfactorsthatmaybeusedbytheinstructorsarelistedaboveunder“Assessment”.

TextsandReferenceBooks:

1.Langan,John.CollegeWritingSkillswithReadings.6thed.Beijing:

Foreign

LanguageTeachingandResearchPress,2007.

2.Hei,Yuqin.BasicEnglishWriting.Xi’an:

Xi’anJiaotongUniversityPress,2008.

Evaluation:

Thestudentswillwriteeightparagraphsatclearlyspecifiedtimesduringthesemester.Eachoftheparagraphshasastatementofamainideaorpurposeand10ormoresentencesthatsupportthemainideaorpurposewithatleast125words.Studentswillbeevaluatedaccordingtocourserequirements.Student’sparagraphswillbegradedforcontentandstructureaswellasgrammarandusage.Onatestorcreditparagraph,twoisusuallythemaximumnumberofmajorerrorsallowed（FRAG,RO,FS,CS,SV,VE,T）forsatisfactorywork.

1.Acleartopicsentencethatcommunicatesasingleidea

2.Detailsthatcompletelydevelopthetopicsentence

3.Asatisfyingconcludingsentence

4.Transitionalwords,phrases,andclausestohelpthereadermovesmoothlyand

logicallyfromonepointtothenext

5.Variedsentencestructures

6.Appropriatevocabularyforthecourselevel

7.Sentenceskills:

theparagraphshouldavoidmajorerrors

SuggestedLearningActivities:

Tomasterparagraphwriting,thestudentmaydoanyofthefollowingastheteacherassigns:

1.Findingthemainideainjournalsorfree-writing

2.Rewritingtoemphasizeandsupportthatidea

3.Writingatleastoneparagrapheachweek

4.Observingmainideasupportandorderingoodparagraphs

5.Listeningtootherstudents’paragraphsformainideasupportandorder

6.Usingpeer-reviewtostrengthenparagraphorder,supportormainidea

7.Revisingparagraphstoshowbetterunityofpurposesupport,ororder

8.Studyingselectedreadingstofindthemainideaandsupportingpoints

9.Conferringwiththeteacherindividually

Andtomastersentenceskills,thestudent,individuallyorinclass,willperformanyoffollowingactivitiesastheteacherassigns:

1.Completinggrammarexercisesinthetextbooks

2.Completinghandoutscontaininggrammarexercises

3.Proofreadingexercisescontainingerrors

4.Readingparagraphstocorrectgrammaringroups

5.Findingandcorrectingerrorsinsentencesorparagraphs

6.Conferringwiththeteacherindividually

CourseSchedule:

Week1Introductiontothecourse

-Knowingeachotheraswriters

-Discussingthesyllabus

Week2Sentenceskills（I）

-Fragments

-Run-ons

Week3Sentenceskills（II）

-Subject-verbagreements

-Pronounagreementsandreferences

Week4Sentenceskills（III）

-Misplacedmodifiers

-Danglingmodifiers

Week5Sentenceskills（IV）

-Unnecessaryshifts

-Faultyparallelism

Week6Writingprocess（I）

-Writingasadiscoveryprocess

-Generatingideas:

free-writingandquestioning

Week7Writingprocess（II）:

Generatingideas:

listing,clusteringandoutlining

Week8Writingprocess（III）

-Organizingideas

-Writingthefirstdraft

Week9Paragraphstructure

-Writingthetopicsentence

-Writingsupportingevidence

Week10Paragraphunity（I）

-Placementofthetopicsentence

-Distinguishingmajorandminorpoints

Week11Paragraphunity（II）:

Distinguishingrelevantandirrelevantpoints

Week12Paragraphcoherence

-Usingtransitionalwordstoachievecoherence

-Usingparallelstructuretoachievecoherence

Week13Paragraphcompleteness:

Usingsufficientevidence

Week14Paragraphdevelopment（I）:

Introductiontodifferentpatterns

Week15Paragraphdevelopment（II）:

Developmentbytimeorder

Week16Paragraphdevelopment（III）:

Week17Paragraphdevelopment（IV）:

Developmentbycomparisonandcontrast

Week18Wrapping-up:

Revisionandpreparationforthefinalexamination

Weeks19-20Finalexaminations

IntermediateEnglishWriting

IntermediateEnglishWriting

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IntermediateEnglishWritingaimsathelpingstudentsgetacquaintedwiththewritingtechniquesforvarioustypesofwriting,namely,narration,description,expositionandargumentation.Bytheendofthecourse,thestudentsareexpectedtowriteunified,well-developedandcoherentessayswiththemethodstaught.Toachievethegoals,thestudentswillreceiveintensiveinstruction,learntoreadandthinkcriticallyanddoanumberofwritingassignmentsbothinsideandoutsideclass.

Attheendofthecourse,thestudentswillbeableto,throughtests,quizzes,readingassignments,classdiscussions,andwritingassignments,dothefollowing:

1.Knowingthewritingprocessofanessay,whichincludesgeneratingideas,organizingideas,writing,revising,editingandproofreading

2.KnowingthecorrectformatofanEnglishessay（themargins,thepositionofthetitle,thecapitalizationofthetitle,thepunctuationinthetitleandtheindentationofeachparagraph）

3.Designingtheoutlineofanessay（choosingagoodtopic,decidingonanappropriatetitle,findingacontrollingidea,providingsupportingdetailsandorganizingeachpartofanessayinagoodorder）

4.Writinganeffectivethesisstatementforarequiredtopic

5.Tellingwhichtypeofwritingismainlyrequiredforanessaytopicandthedifferencesamongnarration,description,expositionandargumentation

6.Writinganarrativeessay,displayingasignificanttheme,agoodtemporalorderofevents,somedegreeofconflicts,aclearpointofviewandwell-paceddetails

7.Writinganessaydescribingaperson,aplaceoranobject,displayingavividimageandadominantimpressionbyusingeffectivedescriptivetechniques

8.Writinganillustrativeessay,displayingthetechniquesofusingdifferenttypesofexamplestoexplainapoint

9.Knowinghowtowriteboththedirectionalandtheinformativetypesofprocessanalysis

10.Writingadivision-and-classificationessay,displayingtheabilitytocategorizethings

11.Writingacause-and-effectessay,displayingtheabilitytoanalyzedifferenttypesofcausesor/andeffectsofaphenomenon

12.Writingacomparison-and-contrastessay,displayingtheabilitytoclarify,judgingorevaluatingtwosubjectsbycomparisonandcontrast

13.Writinganargumentativeessay,