上海交通大学：《二专英语写作》教学资源_教学资料_writing Introduction

English Writing Week 1:Introduction Lecturer:Yu Jiying Email:yujiyingliz@126.com

Lecturer: Yu Jiying Email: yujiyingliz@126.com

Ice-Breaking What do you love to read?

 What do you love to read?

Course Description This course is an one-term introductory composition course,designed to build the overall writing skills of first-year English majors by bringing them to the awareness of appropriate audience identification, correct grammar,sound sentence structure,logical paragraph relationships,etc,by presenting writing as a continuous process that involves constant decision- making,and by introducing the students to skills in narrative,descriptive,persuasive,expository writing and to questioning,prewriting,revising,and editing skills

 This course is an one-term introductory composition course, designed to build the overall writing skills of first-year English majors by bringing them to the awareness of appropriate audience identification, correct grammar, sound sentence structure, logical paragraph relationships, etc, by presenting writing as a continuous process that involves constant decision- making, and by introducing the students to skills in narrative, descriptive, persuasive, expository writing and to questioning, prewriting, revising, and editing skills

Course Goals Students should be able to write a unified,well supported and coherent essay that is unmistakably reaching towards the following goals:

 Students should be able to write a unified, well- supported and coherent essay that is unmistakably reaching towards the following goals:

◇Unity ◇Support ◇Coherence

Unity Support Coherence

Introduction: Thesis statement Plan of development (optional) Topic sentence 1 (Supporting point 1) Specific evidence Body Topic sentence 2 (Supporting point 2) Specific evidence Topic sentence 3 (Supporting point 3) Specific evidence Conclusion Summary (optional) General closing remarks (or both)

Topic sentence 1 (Supporting point 1) Specific evidence Topic sentence 2 (Supporting point 2) Specific evidence Topic sentence 3 (Supporting point 3) Specific evidence Body Summary (optional) General closing remarks (or both) Conclusion Introduction: Thesis statement Plan of development (optional)

Make sure that every piece of writing has a unified main idea (or central focus,or main point,or thesis,or central theme,or whatever you want to call it);make sure an essay is coherent and logically developed,and that it contains adequate support for its assertions. Make sure that every paper balances the students' own ideas with the data obtained from sources

 Make sure that every piece of writing has a unified main idea (or central focus, or main point, or thesis, or central theme, or whatever you want to call it); make sure an essay is coherent and logically developed, and that it contains adequate support for its assertions.  Make sure that every paper balances the students ’ own ideas with the data obtained from sources

Learn to read a variety of published texts attentively and critically (in other words,to demonstrate through writing an active engagement with the text) Learn to read one's own writing,and the writing of one's peers,attentively and critically. Learn how to revise,and learn the necessity of doing so. Learn to edit and proofread one's own work

 Learn to read a variety of published texts attentively and critically (in other words, to demonstrate through writing an active engagement with the text)  Learn to read one ’ s own writing, and the writing of one ’ s peers, attentively and critically.  Learn how to revise, and learn the necessity of doing so.  Learn to edit and proofread one ’ s own work

Course Overview Introduction of the course ◇The Writing Process Writing thesis statements Support a thesis 1 ◇Support a thesis2 Organize and connect the specific eviden Revise sentences 1

 Introduction of the course  The Writing Process  Writing thesis statements  Support a thesis 1  Support a thesis 2  Organize and connect the specific evidence  Revise sentences 1

◇Revise sentences2 Revise Essays Mid-term Exam ◇Descriptive Essay ◇Narrative Essay ◇Process Essay Cause and Effect Essay Comparison and Contrast Essay ◇Argumentative Essay Final Exam

 Revise sentences 2  Revise Essays  Mid-term Exam  Descriptive Essay  Narrative Essay  Process Essay  Cause and Effect Essay  Comparison and Contrast Essay  Argumentative Essay  Final Exam