ENGL-101- Weekly Syllabus -Second Half of Term - Fall 2013 (1)

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PreparedbyHalaAbdElMoneimDirectoroftheEnglishLanguageandRhetoricProgram ACU

ENGL101 Academic Writing

Schedule for second half of Fall 2013 term

Week#5 Correctionandsubmissionofmidtermexampapers

MIDTERMEXAMS

Week #6 30thNovember 4thDecember

Lesson Outcomes Content covered and In-class Assignment

Writing the cause andeffect essay with ablock organization

Outlining an essay

Using commascorrectly

Writing:

Writing Academic English

Unit 6: Cause and Effect Essays: Block organization(pdf: p.103108

(Book: p.94-98)

Drafting:

Pre-writing: Outlining a cause and effect essay on a topic chosenfrom p.105and writing a first draft in class by hand based on outli

Instructor gives global feedback on first draft after reading excerpin class to assure originality of content.


Appendix B: Punctuation Rules

Commas: (pdf: p.289-291) (Book: p. 280-282)

Writing simple andcompound sentences

Grammar:

Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentence


Chapter 10: Types of Sentences (pdf: p.172-187) (book p.162-178)

Making inferences Reading:

Advanced Reading Power

Unit 2: Making inferences: selected reading by instructor

Unit 3: Understanding paragraphs: selected reading by instructor

Weekly Assignment 4 Completing all exercises above (first few questions of eachexercise are covered in class)

Writing the second draft of the cause and effect essay andsending it by email to instructor


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Week #7 7thDecember 11thDecember: Second Mid-terms in some facultiesLesson Outcomes Content covered and In-class Assignment

Writing the cause andeffect essay with a chainorganization

Using techniques to avoidplagiarism:

1- Summarizing2- Paraphrasing3- Using quotations

Using semi-colonscorrectly

Writing:


Chapter 6: Cause and Effect Essays: Chain organization(pdf:p.109113) (Book: p.98-104)

1. SummarizingAdvanced Reading Power

Unit 8: - (Book: p.200-212)

2. Paraphrase and SummaryWriting Academic English

Chapter 8: (Book: p.127-141) (pdf: p.136-150)

3. QuotationsWriting Academic English

Chapter 3: (Book: p.42-49) (pdf: p. 51-59)



Semi-colons: (pdf: p.292-294) (Book: p. 283-285)

Grammar:

Quiz 1: Types of Sentences

(prepared by instructor and sent 2 days before session for approvalbefore printing)

Identifying patterns oforganization

Reading:


Unit 4: Patterns of Organization - (book p.134-154)

Weekly Assignment 5 Writing Academic EnglishChapter 6: Reading: (pdf: p.115-118) (book: p.106-109)

Submitting final corrected draft of C&E essay by email


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Week #8 14thDecember 18thDecember


Writing the comparisonand contrast essay

Outlining and drafting

Using colons correctly

Writing:


Chapter 6: Comparison and Contrast Essays: Point-by-point and

block organization(pdf: p.121125) (Book: p.112-116)

Drafting:

Pre-writing: Outlining a comparison and contrast essay on atopic chosen from p.122-123and writing a first draft in class byhand based on outline

Instructor gives global feedback on first draft after readingexcerpts in class to assure originality of content

Writing Academic EnglishAppendix B: Punctuation Rules

Colons: (pdf: p.294-296) (Book: p. 285-287)

Editing

Coherence

Connecting ideas inparagraphs

Editing

Grammar:

Revision of Subject verb agreement and tenses offer web links

Explaining Pronoun reference

Advanced Reading Power:

Pronouns as connectors (book: p.114-116)

Explaining parallelism


Chapter 11: parallel structures and sentence problems (book:p.179-193)

Identifyingorganizational patterns

Reading:


Unit 5: Reading longer passages effectively Revision on process description organization - Exercise 1

(book p.155-158) and Exercise 3 (book: p. 161)

Revision on comparison and contrast organization -Exercise 2 (book p.159) and Exercise 4 (book: p. 161)

Weekly Assignment 6 Completing all exercises above (first few questions ofeach exercise are covered in class)

Writing second draft of comparison and contrast essay


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Week #9 21stDecember 25thDecember


Editing the comparison

and contrast essay for

cohesion

Using quotation marks

correctly

Writing:


Chapter 6: Comparison and Contrast Essays: Comparison and

contrast signal words (pdf: p.125130) (Book: p.116-121)



Quotation marks: (pdf: p.297-299) (Book: p. 288-290)

Writing complex sentences Grammar:

Quiz 2: Paragraph Editing

(prepared by instructor and sent 2 days before session for approval

before printing)

Identifying organizational

patterns

Reading:


Unit 5: Reading longer passages effectively

Revision on comparison and contrast organization -Exercise 4 (book p.161-162)

Revision on cause and effect organization - Exercise 5(book p.162-163)

Weekly Assignment 7 Writing Academic EnglishChapter 7: Comparison and Contrast Reading

Comprehension: (pdf: p.133-135) (book: p.124-126)

Submitting final corrected draft of C&C essay.

Assessment:Thereare5assessmentgradesforthesefourweeksofinstruction:

1. Causeandeffectessay=3.5%2. Comparisonandcontrastreading=3.5%3. 2quizzes(3.5%each)4. Comparisonandcontrastessay=15%(consideredasafinalpaperforthecourse)

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