SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentSophomore Class A, Department of English Sophomore Class B, Department of English
Course NameWriting and Reading (II)
InstructorLIN CHIH-HSIN
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
PrerequisiteAcademic Writing、American Language and Culture、English Reading & Discussion、Writing and Reading、Writing and Reading (I)
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Students are expected to spend one hour in reading and three hours in writing every week.



9/15         Introduction: Reading and Writing



                Chapter 1 “Reading for Writing” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 1-5; 10-20)



                Chapter 2 “Ways of Writing” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 21-39)



                Finding and developing an appropriate topic



9/22         Classification I: Human Behavior



                “Analyzing a Subject by Classification” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 89-94)



                “What, Me? Showing Off?” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 97-102 )



9/29         Classification II: Human Behavior



                “Personal Beast” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 104-111)



                *Topics and arguments for exercise 1



10/6         Making an outline: (Research: PP 138-55)



                *Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 1



10/13       Classification III: Human Behavior



                “The Ways We Lie” (50 Essays: PP 120-29)



                *Exercise 1-draft



10/20       Comparison and Contrast I: Gender Issues



                “Introduction” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 143-149)



                “Battle of Sexes Whirls Above Science Gap” (New York Times)



                *Outline 1 due



                *Peer review



10/27       Comparison and Contrast II: Gender Issues



                “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 379-82)



                *Exercise 1-revised



11/3         Diction (Strategies: PP: 235-57)



                *Topics and arguments for exercise 2



11/10       Comparison and Contrast III: Gender Issues



                “Cohabiting is Not the Same as Commitment” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 262-64)



                *Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 2



11/17       Comparison and Contrast IV: Gender Difference



                “Gender in the Classroom” (Norton Sampler: PP 224-31)



                *Outline 2



11/24       Analogy



               “Using Analogy as an Expository Device” (Patterns, 17th edition: PP 207-10)



                “Turning School into Profit Centers” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 321-23)



                * Exercise 2-draft



12/1         Cause and Effect I: Generations Y and Z



                “Analyzing Cause and Effect Relationships” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 321-26)



                “What’s Wrong with ‘Me, Me, Me’?” (Patterns 10: PP 206-11)



                * Peer Review



12/8         Cause and Effect II: Generations Y and Z



                “A’s for Everyone!” (Contemporary Reader, 9th edition: PP 417-23)



                Exercise 2-revised



                *Topics and arguments for exercise 3



12/10      Cause and Effect III: Generations Y and Z



                “Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled” (Patterns, 17th, PP345-79)



                *Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 3



12/15      Writing a Research Paper



               “Writing a Paper Using Research” (Steps to Writing Well: PP 355-76)



               * Exercise 3-draft



12/22      Writing effective sentences (Strategies: PP 218-34)



                *Peer Review



                *Preliminary topics and research questions



12/29       Introduction to plagiarism and documentation



                “Principles of MLA Style” (MLA Handbook: PP 3-13)



                *Exercise 3-revised



1/5           Final Examination



                *Revision of topics and research questions



 



Readings for the winter



               “Using Definition to Help Explain”(Patterns, 17th edition: PP 363-68)



               William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 174-205 (PP 207-08)



Assignment for the winter



                Working Bibliography


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

1. Class attendance and discussion: 20%



2. Outlines: 10%



3. Writing Exercises: 50%



4. Final Examination: 20%


Textbook & Reference

 Required:



Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  Seventh Edition.  First Authorized Taiwan Reprinting by Bookman.  New York: MLA, 2017.  Print.



Sources for photocopied materials: photocopied materials can be picked up at 馨園影印店



Decker, Randall E.  Patterns of Exposition 10.  Taiwan Edition.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986. Print.



Schwegler, Robert A.  Patterns of Exposition.  Seventeenth Edition.  New York: Longman, 2004.



Cohen, Samuel, ed.  50 Essays: a Portable Anthology.  Bedford: St. Martins P, 2004.



Walker, Melissa.  Writing Research Papers: A Norton Guide.  Fourth Edition.  New York: Norton, 1997.



Goshgarian, Gary, ed.  The Contemporary Reader. Eighth Edition. New York: Longman, 2005.



Goshgarian, Gary.  The Contemporary Reader.  Ninth Edition.  New York: Longman, 2008.



Cooley, Thomas.  Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition.  Sixth Edition.  New York: Norton, 2003.



Peterson, Linda H., John C. Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman, ed.  The Norton Reader: an Anthology of Nonfiction Prose.  Shorter 10th Edition.  New York: Norton, 2002.



Reinking, James A, Andrew W. Hart, and Robert von der Osten, eds.  Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook.  Sixth Edition.  New Jersey: Prentice, 2002. Print.



Wyrick, Jean.  Steps to Writing Well, with Additional Readings.  Sixth Edition.  Australia: Thomas, 2005.



Suggested:



Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.  2nd Edition.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. ($850==>723)



Dictionary of Common Errors.  Eds. N. D. Turton and J. B. Heaton.  Second Edition.  England: Longman, 1996. Print. ($480==>408)



Chalker Sylvia.  English Grammar: Word by Word.  Hong Kong: Nelson, 1990.  (300==>255)



The New American Rogert’s College Thesaurus.  Ed. Philip D. Morehead.  Revised Edition.  New York: Signet, 1985. Print.



A Dictionary of American Idioms.  Ed. Adam Makkai.  Fourth Edition.  New York: Barron’s. 2004. Print.  (595==>506)



Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary of American English.  Boston: Harper Collins P, 2007. Print.  ($980==>500)



Oxford English Dictionary.  Oxford: Oxford: UP, 2013.  Web. 


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