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 |
1 |
Warm-up Writing; Brainstorming; Developing Proper Writing Habits |
Writing Approach |
Steps to Writing |
3 |
2 |
2 |
Review of Paragraph Writing; “Riting Wrules” |
Paragraph Writing; Rules of English Writing |
Paragraph Writing |
3 |
3 |
3 |
Onto Essay |
Expanding a Paragraph into an Essay |
Paragraph Writing and Essay Writing |
3 |
3 |
4 |
Essay: supporting sentences; Writing Tone: pronouns |
Writing Support |
Writing Support |
3 |
3 |
5 |
Personal & Business Email Communication |
Email Etiquette |
Email Writing |
3 |
3 |
6 |
Cause & Effect Essay; Avoiding Shifts in Person Errors; Product Development |
Causes and Effects |
Essay Writing |
3 |
3 |
7 |
Faulty Logic; Dress-Ups & Openers; Product Brochure Design |
Elements of Product Brochures |
Writing Skills; Product Brochure Design |
3 |
3 |
8 |
Coherence; Product Brochure Design |
"Selling" Your Product via Words |
Writing Skills; Product Brochure Design |
3 |
3 |
9 |
Common Problems Students Face in College; Questionnaire Design; Product Brochure Design |
Discussion of Common Problems Faced by Students; "Good" Questionnaires |
Discussion of Common Problems Faced by Students; Designing Questionnaires |
3 |
3 |
10 |
Pre-testing Questionnaire; Product Brochure Design |
Designing and Testing Questionnaires |
Testing Questionnaires |
3 |
3 |
11 |
Mini-Research Paper; Research: Materials & Methods; Product Brochure Design |
IMRAD; Brochure Design & Layout |
IMRAD; Brochure Design & Layout |
3 |
3 |
12 |
ETP Trade Show |
ETP Trade Show |
ETP Trade Show |
3 |
3 |
13 |
(Happy Birthday dear NCCU!) |
NCCU Anniversary |
NCCU Anniversary |
3 |
3 |
14 |
Argumentative Essay; Debate; Avoiding Plagiarism: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotes: Research: Results |
Essay Writing; Debate; Avoiding Plagiarism |
Essay Writing; Avoiding Plagiarism |
3 |
3 |
15 |
Logic & Reasoning; Use of Modifiers; Research: Discussion |
Essay Writing; Writing Skills |
Essay Writing |
3 |
3 |
16 |
Counterargument & Refutation; Parallelism; Research: Conclusion |
Counterargument & Refutation |
Writing Skills |
3 |
3 |
17 |
Revealing Research Findings |
Discussion of Research Findings |
Discussion of Research Findings |
3 |
3 |
18 |
Writing Coaching |
Meeting with the Instructor |
Meeting with the Instructor |
3 |
3 |