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    This document provides a course outline for an English Writing Skills and Communication course at American International University-Bangladesh. The 3 credit course is designed to help students improve their writing skills through practicing various rhetorical patterns like process analysis, cause and effect, and argumentation. Students will learn techniques for prewriting, writing, and revising essays. The course objectives are to help students understand how purpose and audience impact writing, employ writing processes, develop multi-paragraph essays, use supporting details, demonstrate varied sentence structures, and apply conventions of syntax and mechanics. Topics covered include principles of effective writing, subject-verb agreement, fragments, paragraph writing styles, and argumentative, comparison/contrast, and letter writing. Student assessment is based

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    1.2 Course Outline Eng Writing

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    This document provides a course outline for an English Writing Skills and Communication course at American International University-Bangladesh. The 3 credit course is designed to help students improve their writing skills through practicing various rhetorical patterns like process analysis, cause and effect, and argumentation. Students will learn techniques for prewriting, writing, and revising essays. The course objectives are to help students understand how purpose and audience impact writing, employ writing processes, develop multi-paragraph essays, use supporting details, demonstrate varied sentence structures, and apply conventions of syntax and mechanics. Topics covered include principles of effective writing, subject-verb agreement, fragments, paragraph writing styles, and argumentative, comparison/contrast, and letter writing. Student assessment is based

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    AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-BANGLADESH

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences


    COURSE OUTLINE

    I - Course Title: English Writing Skills and Communication (SemesterSpring 2009-2010)


    II - Credit: 3
    III AA and F
    IV - Course Description:
    The course is designed to study various rhetorical patterns and use their writing skills to develop essays in
    these patterns. The rhetorical patterns studied in this course are process analysis, cause and effect, and
    argument/persuasion. Students will also learn the process of writing. This course will help students learn
    how to think more clearly, organize thoughts in logical sequence, and improve writing skills through
    prewriting, writing, and rewriting processes. The underlying premise of the course is that the students who
    take it are inexperienced writers who need practice, not that they are incapable. Like other composition
    courses, the course is designed to give students extensive practice in writing in order to improve their
    ability to invent substantial content and express it in fluent prose. It helps students learn the many
    functions of writing--to discover ideas, use language effectively, and communicate with and influence
    audiences. Along the way, students learn or review conventional practices of usage and punctuation.

    V Objectives:
    1

    a.
    b.
    c.
    d.
    e.
    f.
    g.

    understand how audience and purpose influence a writer's choices;


    flexibly employ the basic processes of writing--planning, editing, composing, and revising;
    develop multi-paragraph essays and arrange them coherently;
    use supporting detail based on personal experience and outside materials;
    demonstrate increased competence with varied sentence structures;
    understand and apply the basic conventions of syntax and mechanics;
    Proofread competently and prepare acceptable manuscripts.

    VI Topics (Major and subtopics) to be covered


    TOPICS

    Specific
    Time
    Suggested
    Objective(s) per Frame Activities
    Topic

    Principles of effective writing

    To be able to use the


    principles in their own
    writing
    To select the right verb for
    the subject
    To be capable of avoiding
    incomplete sentences in
    their writing

    Subject verb agreement


    Fragments

    Prewriting:
    strategies.

    planning

    the

    Paragraph writing:
    Qualities, structure of a
    paragraph Topic sentence.
    The different stylistic features of
    writing : linguistic analysis
    Paragraph writing: Descriptive
    and Narrative.
    Paragraph writing: Comparison

    Teaching
    Strategy(s
    )

    1 Week
    1 Weeks

    1 Weeks
    2 Weeks

    To develop organized
    paragraph

    Brainstorming
    Clustering

    Student-oriented
    throughout the
    semester:
    Students are
    expected to
    participate
    enthusiastically in
    the classroom
    activities

    1 Weeks
    To learn to write an effective
    paragraph
    To be able to find out the
    major linguistic elements of
    piece of a text

    1 Week
    2 Weeks

    2 Weeks
    1 Week

    and contrast.

    1 Week

    Essays writing: Comparison and


    contrast.
    Punctuation ( comma ,
    capitalization)
    Argumentative writing.
    Letter writing: Official letters.
    Lab session

    VII - Course Requirements


    Class attendance: At least 80%. Failure to do so will bring an automatic UW.
    Class performance: Student-centered. Each student has to participate on a regular basis.
    Assignments: Must be submitted within stipulated time frame. No late submissions will be entertained.
    Quizzes: Will be both written and verbal. No make-up will be taken for missed quizzes.

    IX Textbook/ Reference
    Materials

    VIII Evaluation
    1. Termed Exam
    2. Quizzes & Assignments
    3. Presentation and
    class performance
    4. Attendance
    Total

    The advancing writer book:


    paragraphs and essays by Karen L.
    Greenberg, Harper Collins.

    College Writing Skills With


    readings- John Langan

    Quest Reading and Writing in


    the academic world- Pamela
    Hartmann And Laurie Blass

    All kinds of lecture sheets and


    materials given by the course
    teacher.

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    30%
    20%
    10%
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