Writing Year 1 - 2^nd semester 2010/2011

Instructor: Waldemar Szefliński (duty hours: Tue 11²⁵-11⁵⁵, 13³⁰-14⁰⁰, Fri 18¹⁰-18⁴⁰)

Class Topics

1. Introduction to semester two

2. Short story - revision

3. Theory on paragraph writing - revision

4. Paragraph Development: Description (short outline)

ES 166-169

5. Paragraph Development: Narration (long outline)

ES 175-178

6. Sentence Skills

CWS 201-275; ES 48, 65-67 (do not copy - make notes)

7. Timed Writing: long outline: Description or Narration

8. Paragraph Development - Comparison and Contrast (long outline)

ES 138-146

9. Review - part one

10. Review - part two

11. Editing tests (sentence skills practice)

12. Timed Writing: Review

13. Article

14. Exercises consolidating paragraph writing issues + Sentence skills achievement test

15. Semester conclusion

Assessment

70% - Timed Writing 15% - Sentence skills achievement test 10% - class work

5% - attendance (absences: 2 [any] - 5%; 3 excused - 5% ; any other combination - 0%)

marking scale:

93%-100% 5

86%-92% 4+

80%-85% 4

71%-79% 3+

60%-70% 3

0%-59% 2 (fail)

Selected bibliography

Langan, J. College Writing Skills, McGraw-Hill (CWS)

Langan, J. English Skills, McGraw-Hill (ES)

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