Download outline of writing II, 2014

Course Outline Form
Course Title : Engl B 3255 Writing II
Semester
: Spring 2014
Instructors : Dr. Kamal R. Mourtaga – Dr. Reham Shubair, Mohammed Haj
Ahmed
Course Description
This course focuses on the traditional essay and variations of this essay. It focuses on
common concepts of writing such as writing as a process of discovery, prewriting,
revision, unity, support, coherence, cohesion, etc. In addition to the essay, the course
focuses on related issues such as sentence types and sentence problems. By the end of
the course, students are expected to write well-organized formal essays with an
introduction, three supporting paragraphs and a conclusion. However, students are
expected to go beyond this type of essay by writing different essay types after
thoroughly studying and working on different essay patterns of development that
show variations .
Objectives
A- Competence Objectives
The overall aim of this course is to raise the students’ awareness of basic
conventions followed in academic writing so that they will be able at the end
of the course to write a variety of essays. Specifically, at the end of the
semester, students are expected to acquire sufficient knowledge to perform
different tasks. Such knowledge may include:
1. Learning how to choose and narrow an appropriate essay topic
2. Acquiring enough knowledge on how to write good introductions with
appropriate thesis statements
3. Learning how to write coherent, unified, complete and well-organized
body paragraphs of different types of support
4. Learning how to write good and acceptable conclusions
5. Learning how to distinguish between clauses and phrases, and between
the different sentence types and structures
6. Acquiring sufficient knowledge on the mechanics of writing.
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B- Skill Objectives
Students are expected to acquire the following skills:
*Practicing academic Writing in general
*Mastering Writing mechanics
*practicing writing a variety of pieces of writing in their writing journals such
as a variety of clauses, phrases, sentences, paragraphs and essays
*Practicing peer correction in class to detect errors and problems when
exchanging their journals
*practicing reading of many essays and topics on the Internet in order to
collect ideas to support their assignments.
*Training student writers to be honest when writing their essay assignments
C- Value Objectives
-Reminding student writers to be honest in essay writing and to avoid
plagiarism
-How to deal with peers when working collaboratively
-Encouraging students to write and work collaboratively to establish a sense of
teamwork among them and develop personal relationships among them.
-Encouraging student writers to survey, choose and select topics related to
Palestinians in order to develop a sense of social work and to appreciate their
own culture.
Course contents distributed over 15 weeks for spring semester
Week
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven
Week Twelve
Week Thirteen
Subjects
Sentence review: sentence types, sentence problems,
sentence structure, parallelism, active and passive, clauses
and phrases, conjunctions. p.1 - 23
Purpose of writing and brainstorming techniques p. 24 - 32
Seven steps in the writing process p.33 - 36
The Paragraph: topic sentence, supporting sentences,
concluding sentence p. 37 - 45
Paragraph characteristics: Unity, completeness, cohesion,
continuity, support, coherence, p. 46 - 50
Paragraph types: narrative, descriptive, process, compare
and contrast, cause and effect, problem analysis and
solution, persuasive p. 51 – 58
Essay organization: introduction, body and conclusion
p.59 - 69
Essay types: the process essay p. 70 - 75
Division and classification essay p. 76 - 80
Cause and effect essay p. 81 - 91
Compare and contrast essay p. 92 - 101
Problem/solution essays p. 102 - 106
The Persuasive essay (from another source)
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Week Fourteen The descriptive essay( from out of the source)
Student presentations, Journal submission and marks
Week Fifteen
Assessment
1) 5% participation and attendance
2) 15% keeping a writing journal in which you do your assignments, take
class notes, write reactions and reflection, summarize readings, etc.
3) 5% one essay/topic presentation
4) 15% mid-term exam
5) 60% final exam
Methods of Teaching
1) Lecturing
2) group work
3) presentation
4) peer work
Text book(s):
Anonymous (2014). Writing Fundamentals: Focusing on writing paragraphs and
short essays. Gaza: Al-Ashi Bookstore.
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