ENGLISH COMPOSITION(LECTURE IN ENGLISH)

This course is designed for students who have limited experience writing in English. It will focus on guiding these students through the processes involved in creating coherent, organized, and well-supported compositions. Students will learn some key academic writing skills, including a variety of patterns of organization. The course will also enhance the students’ knowledge of selected features of written grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and mechanics, and the steps involved in the writing process.

1. Develop students' confidence in their ability to write in English
2. Improve students' vocabulary in English
3. Continue instruction in sentence-level writing, including error analysis and correction
4. Continued improvement in paragraph unity
5. Provide instruction in consistency in tense, person, number, and tone
6. Develop students' awareness of patterns of organization (including comparison/contrast, process analysis, causal analysis, description, etc.)
7. Develop students' ability to revise and edit their own and others' writing
8. Introduce students to outlining
9. Introduce students to the proper use of source information
10. Introduce students to basic formal essay structure (including introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs)
11. Introduce students to basic form and design of North American business writing (resumes and cover letters)
12. Introduce students to the basics of timed-writing tests.

It is extremely important that you attend every class, that you turn assignments in on time, and that you do not cheat. Specific rules for this class, including the penalties for poor attendance, plagiarism, late work and other concerns will be discussed early and often. All class rules will be explained in the hand-out syllabus during the first week of the course and will be available on the on-line site.

This class will be taught at the "intermediate/high-intermediate" skill level. Students in this course should already feel reasonably comfortable and competent in paragraph composition in English, and prepared to advance to essay composition. Students should have adequate listening and conversation skills in English.

Students will gain instruction and experience in several forms of written discourse in English, including personal expression, academic and business forms, and TOEFL-style examinations.