週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

Course Orientation

• Introduction to the syllabus, grading scheme and requirements


• In-class writing: Writing experiences, motivations and goals

• Log into Moodle & read:
  
  
  
  • Syllabus
  
  
  • Handouts on academic writing and the paragraph
  
  
  
  

3

4.5

Standards of Good Writing

• Criteria for writing assessment—the case of standardized tests


• Essay structure: introduction, thesis statement, body, and conclusion

• Bi-weekly writing on Moodle discussion forum begins

3

4.5

Exploring the Essay

• Kinds of essays (Instructor facilitated student presentations)
  
  
  
  • Classification
  
  
  • Narrative
  
  
  • Comparison
  
  
  • Cause-Effect
  
  
  • Comparison/Argument
  
  
  
  

• Essay #0 self-critique


• Respond to peers’ bi-weekly writing

3

4.5

Exploring the Essay

• Classification essays


• Avoiding common writing problems


• Timed writing


• Brainstorm topics for Essay #1 Classification

• Bi-weekly writing


• Prepare Essay #1 topic and detailed outline for class discussion

3

4.5

Classification Essays

• Quiz 1


• Unity and coherence


• Viewing essay collection from former students


• Discussion: Essay #1 detailed outline


• Discussion: Final essay topics

• Read example essays


• Final essay topic discussion on Moodle begins


• Essay #1 draft


• Respond to peers’ bi-weekly writing

3

4.5

Comparison Essays

• Essay #1 in-class peer review


• Individual writing conferences with the teacher

• Bi-weekly writing


• Revised Essay #1 due on Moodle

3

4.5

Comparison Essays

• Writing the body and conclusion


• Grammatical problems and ways to solve them

• Respond to peers’ bi-weekly writing


• Final essay topics further discussed on Moodle

3

4.5

Comparison Essays

• Quiz


• Essay revision exercises


• More comparison essay examples

• Proofread revised Essay #1


• Final essay general outline due

3

4.5

Argument Essays (capstone project)

• Arguments and counter-arguments


• Concession and refutation

• Essay #2 draft due

3

4.5

COCA and other online corpora

• Online writing resources


• Problem-solving exercises using online resources

Discussion and revision of Essay #2

3

4.5

More on revisions

• Revision for better idea development in a paragraph with a learner sample


• More on sentence structure: types of clauses

Final essay detailed outline due

3

4.5

Cause-effect Essays

• Essay #2 in-class peer review


• Individual writing conferences with the teacher

Essay #2 revision due

3

4.5

Logical Fallacies

• Revision reflection


• Making a solid argument; logical fallacies activities

• Textbook exercises

3

4.5

Cause-effect Essays

• Outline, rough draft in class


• Conditional sentences


• Unreal conditions

• Bi-weekly writing


• Essay #3 first draft

3

4.5

Argument Essays

• Group review for final essay drafts

• Essay #3 revision due

3

4.5

Argument Essays

• More on revision and using outside resources

• Final proofreading

3

4.5

Final polishing for internal publication

• How to format and build PDF documents


• Individual conferences

• Typesetting and formatting

3

4.5

Final essay showcase

Author roundtable showcase of the argument essay