ENGL1177 Academic Writing
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Objectives
- Learn what's necessary to survive as an academic writer
- Identify and compose a variety of sentence types to achieve a given aim
- Analyze and compose paragraphs of different structures
- Identify and compose thesis statements suited to a given purpose
- Analyze the stylistic qualities of essays having a variety of rhetorical purposes
- Critically read and compose expository essays, persuasive essays
- Compose essays that present a critical analysis of an essay or article or part of one
- Write effective summaries of an essay or article or part of one
Evaluation
- 4 Writing assignments - 80
- Academic summary - 15
- Persuasive essay - 15
- Research essay - 20
- 2-part assignment, to submit an outline in advance of the final draft
- Final examination - 30
- Participation - 20
- participation in discussion of readings thru email postings in the discussion area as scheduled at specific times during the term,
- independent diligent work online
- proof that rigorous effort made to become fully familiar by careful comprehensive reading and study to learn and understand all the elements, information, and instructions in the course
- total participation will be evaluated at the end of the course
- participate fully and punctually in all class activities, make them courteous and easy to read and understand
- If reading the assigned texts carefully, try to understand the concepts, participate readily and fully; stay on topic, work courteously with others, add something new to discussions about the readings, rather than repeating.
- required to participate in all discussions
- read comments in an assignment carefully so as to assess the strengths in writing and areas to improve;
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