Syllabus for English 2 (Fall 2001)

Yuah Chun

Office - X506

Office Hrs: MWF 2:00-2:50 or by appointment

Mailbox – X412 (X511)

Email Address: vylee52@yahoo.com

Course Description This course is designed to provide students with a continuing opportunity to develop fluency and accuracy in English through interactions with a variety of themes that are up-to-date, and varied in tone of ideas and issues of wide concern. As they become actively engaged in discussing or writing about the topics presented in reading passages or listening exercises, students will be able to develop their ability to think critically, to express their own opinions more freely in English, and to organize their own opinions so that they can be clearly expressed either in oral presentations or written compositions.

Textbooks

1) Lee, Linda, and Erik, Gundersen. Select Readings: Intermediate. Oxford

University Press, 2001

2) Kelly, Curtis, and Arlen, Gargagliano. Writing from Within. Cambridge

University Press, 2001

Attendance Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes since the objectives of the course are achieved by participating in class. Six absences or more (excused or unexcused) are considered excessive and will result in a lowered grade. Any student missing more than six classes may fail the course. Three lates will be counted as one absence. Remember that students are responsible for materials covered even on a day they are absent. Tests and quizzes cannot be made up.

Evaluation

Mid-term and Final Written Tests -30%

Oral Tests-20%

Writing Assignments* -20%

In-class Oral or Written Exercises and Quizzes 20%

Attendance-10%.

*Writings will focus on

One paragraph writing (about 150 words) of Narration

One paragraph writing (about 150 words) of Description

Three paragraph writing (about 200 words) of Description

Three paragraph writing (about 200 words) of Comparison/Contrast &

Five paragraph writing (about 250-300) words of Persuasion

 Others: Essay revisions, accompanied by the original, must be submitted in the following class after originals are returned. No essay grade is final without a subsequent revision, which may raise the essay grade up to a full letter point. Students are strongly required to keep their commented, graded papers and other class works in a folder, and this folder will be checked at the mid-term and final oral exams. Without the folder, students cannot get their final grades.

Course Schedule Please look at http://www.quia.com/pages/slctrd.html for further information about the progression of the course.