1 | Introduction to the course
Clear Sentences: Active Verbs, Parallelism |
2 | Clear Sentences: Needed Words, Mixed Constructions, Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers |
3 | Clear Sentences: Shifts , Emphasis, Variety
Word Choice: Wordy Sentences |
4 | Word Choice:Appropriate Language, Exact Words |
5 | Grammatical Sentences: Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, Subject-verb Agreement, Pronoun-antecedent agreement
ASSIGNMENT 1 (5%) |
6 | Grammatical Sentences: Pronoun reference, Pronoun case, who or whom, Adjectives and Adverbs, Standard English Verb Forms |
7 | Challenges for ESL and Multilingual Writers: Verbs, Articles, Sentence Structure, Prepositions and Idiomatic Expressions |
8 | MIDTERM |
9 | Punctuation: The Comma, Unnecessary Commas, The Semicolon, The Colon, The Apostrophe, Quotation Marks, End Punctuation, Other Punctuation Marks |
10 | Mechanics: Abbreviations, Numbers, Italics, Spelling, The Hyphen, Capitalization
ASSIGNMENT 2 (5%) |
11 | Grammar Basics: Parts of Speech, Sentence Patterns, Subordinate word Groups, Sentence Types |
12 | The Writing Process: Exploring, Planning, and Drafting,
Revising, Editing, and Reflecting,
Building Effective Paragraphs
ASSIGNMNET 3 (20%)- Write a Commentary of 300 words on the article: Politics and The English Language by George Orwell (1946) |
13 | Academic Reading and Writing: Reading and Writing Critically, Reading and Writing about Images and Multimedia texts, Reading and Writing Arguments, Reading and Writing about Literature |
14 | Recap, Review, and Conclusion |