Course Syllabus for English 14

Yuah Chun (전 유아)

Office: X506 Office Hours: Will be announced

Email: vylee52@yahoo.com

Telephone: 705-8568/8550

Textbook: Writing Academic English (3^rd ed.) by Alice Oshima & Ann Hogue, Longman

Reference Book: The Little, Brown Handbook (7^th edition) by H. Ramsey Fowler & Jane E. Aaron, Longman

Course Description: This course is an intensive course to provide students with an opportunity to practice written communication. While writing different types of essays and discussing presented topics, students will learn to organize and express their own thoughts coherently in English. Occasionally grammar problems frequently encountered in writing will be discussed. But the emphasis will be on the process and the problem solving in writing.

Attendance: Regular attendance is required. More than three absences are considered excessive since even one absence is detrimental to your development.

Assignment: 2 one-paragraph compositions

4 formal essays

-Students are strongly recommended to type the drafts.

-Type the drafts in double space.

- Leave a margin on both left and right sides of the draft.

- Final essays should always be typed.

- Staple pages together for submission.

- Do not use paper clips or pins and do not merely fold the paper.

- A late submission will lose one letter grade (e.g. B+ to C+)

Web-Assisted Writing: During the course students will be asked to work online for posting some of their essays, giving feedback, chatting between classmates and students from the global writing community who will also be writing on writing projects.

Evaluation: 2 paragraphs – 20%

4 essays – 65%

Class participation and attendance – 15%

-Every essay revision should be submitted accompanied by the first draft in the

following class after the draft is returned. No essay is final without a subsequent

revision.