Syllabus

This picture is an overview of our syllabus and how our textbook will be used to support our learning. 

Note that Part I, Part III, and the Appendices contain much review material. Part II is mostly new types of essays. In order to spread out the essay work evenly throughout the semester and over the two semesters, the sequence of chapters has been changed. In the first semester, we will write a Process Essay and a Cause and Effect Essay. In the second semester, Comparison and Contrast and Argumentative Essays are scheduled, as well as some additional paraphrase and summary work. 

Textbook

Our textbook is Oshima & Hogue, "Writing Academic English" (Level 4), Longman; ISBN-13: 978-0-13-1523593 (4th Edition) 

Last Year's Writing course blog

During one semester last year, we did a little bit of blogging to support what we were studying.
http://e3writing.wordpress.com/

Hello

Blogging
April 29, 2009

You may already have a Google account if you used Google Docs or GCal or Gmail or Blogger or Picasa web albums or any other Google service. If you do not already have a Google account, it is very easy to make one.

You can control many points about your blog, such as whether search engines can find it, who can read it, who can make comments on it, and so on.

Why?

_ Start Writing Regularly
_ Improve your fluency in writing, your ease of
expression, vocabulary, and grammar.
_ Blogging has some similarities to
academic writing. For example, the Funnel Introduction, capturing your reader’s
attention, paragraph structure, essay structure, conclusions, citing sources
(with hyperlinks or with an academic citation).
_ A blog is lighter than a
physical journal or notebook. A blog has no weight. Also, you can write in it
while someone is reading it (at the same time). You can interact with many
different people.

What?
What should I write about?

_ Academic topics
_ Classes at school
_ News
_ Thoughts, ideas, opinions
_ Language learning
_ Something that might be of interest to other people
_ Daily life?

Be careful to protect your own privacy.