Thursday, October 22, 2009

SYLLABUS OF WRITING III

College : STAIN Kerinci (Public Islamic College of Kerinci)
Semester : 5 (Five)
Class : A and B
Lecturer : Eliza Trimadona, S.S.

A.Description: This course is the continuation of Writing II subject. Every students who passed Writing II may continue to this subject. Writing II subject focuses on Paragraph Writing, while Writing III more focuses on Essay Development.

B.Objectives: To emphasizes on the students’ skill and mastery of writing English paragraph and essay development. Besides, it also provides the students with the advanced knowledge on the essay organization, cohesion, and coherence between paragraphs. After taking this subject, the students are expected to be able to write or compose English paragraphs and essays in the correct writing strategies and methods

C.Topics:


Week: 1-2
Topic: The Essay
Sub Topic:
- Writing an Essay
- The Introductory Paragraph
- The concluding Paragraph
- The Essay Body: Outlining
- Transition Signals between Paragraph
- The Writing Process

Week: 3-5
Topic: Patterns of Essay Organization
Sub Topic:
- Chronological Order
- Logical Division of Ideas
- Cause and Effect Order
- Comparison and Contrast Order

Week: 6-8
Topic: Types of Sentences
Sub Topic:
- Clauses
- Kinds of Sentences
- Compound Sentences VS Complex Sentences
- Parallelism
- Sentence Problems

Week :9
Topic: Noun Clauses
Sub Topic:
- Types of Noun Clauses
- That-Clauses
- Wh-word Clauses
- If/whether-Clauses

Week: 10-12
Topic: Adverbial Clauses
Sub Topic:
- Types of Adverbial Clauses
- Time Clauses
- Place Clauses
- Manner, Distance, and Frequency Clauses
- Reason Clauses
- Result Clauses
- Purpose Clauses
- Concession (Unexpected Result) Clauses
- Contrast (Direct Opposition) Clauses

Week: 13-14
Topic: Relative Clauses
Sub Topic:
- Introduction
- Relative Pronouns as Subjects
- Relative Pronouns as Objects
- Possessive Relative Clauses
- Subject Pattern
- Object Pattern
- Relative Pronouns as Objects of Preposition
- Relative Pronouns in Phrases of Quanity and Quality
- Adverbial Relative Clauses

Week: 15-16
Topic: Participal Phrases
Sub Topic:
- Participles
- Participial Phrases
- Participial Phrases from Adverbial Clauses


D.Evaluation: The evaluation will be done personally and group. Every meeting will be presentation and class assignment. Besides, in the middle of semester will be midterm and the final test will be at the end. The students are expected to be working alone and not allowed to have corporation. Another important point is NO PLAGIARISM allowed in this subject. Students may have reading materials but not to copy. If there is found any plagiarism, those students will be FAILED in the subject.

E.References:

Oshima, Alice. 1999. Writing Academic English. Addison Wesley Longman: New York


Padang, October 21, 2009
Eliza Trimadona, S. S.
NIP: 19820619 200604 02 02

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