Topics
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce class and explore the Writing Skills website
- Investigate and understand your writing strategies
- Analyse cross-cultural differences in academic writing
- Write a reflective paragraph on your writing strategies
Go to Week 1 Introduction
Learning Objectives:
- Explore and practice the writing process in academic writing
- Examine the different types of sentences and apply them to your writing
Go to Week 2 Academic Writing Basics
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the organisation pattern in a paragraph
- Analyze old-to-new flow of ideas in a text
- Revise and edit essays to be more formal and concise
Go to Week 3 Organisation and Flow
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and summarize key ideas from texts
- Apply paraphrasing techniques to summaries
- Create a summary response using paraphrasing skills
Go to Week 4 Summary Response
Learning Objectives:
- Review and practice reporting verbs
- Analyse and apply unreal conditionals in critique writing
- Identify and analyse sentence types and errors
Go to Week 5 Critique
Learning Objectives:
- Analyse a problem-solution text
- Understand and apply passive and active voice in academic writing.
- Understand and apply mid-position adverbs to provide anticipation to the readers
Go to Week 6 Problem-Solution
Learning Objectives:
- Recognise -ing clauses to indicate cause and effect
- Compare different types of thesis statements
- Edit problem solution draft through the peer review process
Go to Week 7 Editing Process
Learning Objectives:
- Explore language use in different sections of a research paper
- Understand the purpose of writing and how it factors into different linguistic stylistic choices.
- Recognise and analyze the use of articles in academic writing
Go to Week 8 Research Paper
Learning Objectives
- Understand and recognise the language used in CV (in the academic field)
- Review and create thesis statements (for letter writing)
- Apply writing skills in professional written communication
Go to Week 9 CV Workshop
Learning Objectives
- Understand and recognise the language used in professional email writing
- Discuss and analyse do’s and don’ts in email writing
Go to Week 10 Communicative Writing
Schedule
*subject to change
| Week | Topics | Assignment |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction | Reflection |
| Week 2 | Sentence Types | Extended Definition |
| Week 3 | Idea Flow Organisation in Writing | Extended Definition Revision |
| Week 4 | Paraphrasing | Summary Response |
| Week 5 | Evaluative and Descriptive Writing | Summary with Critique |
| Week 6 | Active vs Passive | Problem-Solution |
| Week 7 | -ing Clause | Problem-Solution Revision |
| Week 8 | Persuasive Language | Proposal |
| Week 9 | Addressing in Email | |
| Week 10 | CV workshop | CV |