From Paragraphs to Essays

Writing

Keywords:
Grammar, Vocabulary, Web Activities, Writing

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This course is designed to help students become confident in using their English to produce written work from paragraph length to essay length. Students will be exposed to initial concepts in how to write good sentences, expand and vary sentences, improve writing style and write in formal tone. Subsequently, students will learn to organize and support ideas to build a cohesive paragraph. Students will practice to write various cohesive short essays throughout the semester.

This course will focus on helping learenrs to develop skills in writing effective paragraphs and basic essays in English. Other course objectivew will include:

1. Increasing active vocabulary

2. Correcting grammar points in writing

3. Developing skills in writing paragraphs

4. Building good structured essays

5. Developing ability for self-editing

Attendance: 10%
Participation: 10%
Writing assignments: 24%
Vocabulary quiz: 15%
Make-up assignments: 20%
Final writing test: 21%

1	Oct 7 Introduction to the course and Moodle registration
2	Oct 14 Sentence Structure and Variety
3	Oct 21 Cohesion
4	Oct 28 Articles & Paragraph Structure
5	Nov 4 Mind Mapping & Describing a Place
6	Nov 5 (Make-up Assignment 1) Narrative of a Person
7	Nov 11 Writing in Formal Tone
8	Nov 18 Summarizing & Paraphrasing
9	Nov 25 How to Build In-text Citation & Bibliography
10	Nov 28 (Make-up Assignment 2) Rites of a Passage
11	Dec 2 Essay Structure: Introduction
12	Dec 9 Essay Structure: Conclusion & Capitalisation / Punctuation
13	Dec 16 Compare & Contrast Essay
14	Dec 23 Final Assessment
15	Make-up assignment 3

You will enjoy learning in this class because you will learn to write about things that are related to your own life.