Lesson plan / GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION

Lesson Information

Course Credit 4.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim of this course is to enable students recover the lack of English grammar and to use the academic language and words correctly in writing. It also develops their reading skills for the academic writings with a critical perspective.
Course Content The content of this course is to introduce students to the rules of academic writing by recuperating the grammatical deficiencies of students and enable them to encounter the subjects such as paragraph consistency, explanation, synthesis and summarization.

Weekly Course Subjects

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

Resources

Hacker Diana Sommers, Nancy - The Bedford handbook-Integrated Media