English Writing Ⅰ: A Course Syllabus
Teaching Aims:
This course is designed to provide the students with writing skills of choosing word, making sentence and paragraphing, and to develop their critical thinking, creativity and personality.
Teaching Contents
PART ONE Word and Sentence
Unit 1 The Correct Word
Unit2 The Appropriate Word
Unit 3 The Better Word
Unit 4 Sentence Base
Unit 5 Expanded Sentence Base (1)
Unit 6 Expanded sentence base (2)
Unit 7 Coordinate Sentence
Unit 8 Joining Sentence Together
Unit 9 Sentence Variety
Unit10 Punctuation
PART TWO PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT
Unit 1: General Introduction
Unit 2: Events
Unit 3: Places
Unit 4: Customs
Unit 5: Career
Unit 6: Unit 6 Nature and Thought
Unit 7: Social Problems
Unit 8: Education
Unit 9: Culture
Unit 10 Mass Media
Unit 11 People
Assessments:
Classroom attendance/performance 10%
Weekly writings 30%
Group projects 20%
Final exam 40%