COURSE OUTLINE OF ENG001: ELEMENTARY ENGLISH
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Lecture No. |
Topic |
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1 |
Why writing skills are viewed as crucial |
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2 |
Writer as a communicator |
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3 |
Qualities and the concerns of a good writer |
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4 |
Good and bad writing |
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5 |
Principles of effective and meaningful writing |
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6 |
Journalistic Writing Process: Inventing and Collecting. |
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7 |
Journalistic Writing Process: Organizing, Drafting, Revising, and Proofreading. |
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8 |
Journalist’s Word Choices |
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9 |
Dictionary – a Writer’s Language Tool |
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10 |
Grammatical Sentence: Parts of speech |
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11 |
Grammatical Sentence: Basic clause pattern |
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12 |
A grammatical sentence: Actives and Passives |
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13 |
A grammatical sentence: Modifiers, Sentence types |
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14 |
A grammatical sentence: Reported speech |
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15 |
A grammatical sentence: Subject verb agreement, Problems with pronouns |
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16 |
A grammatical sentence: Adjective and adverbs, sentence fragments, comma splices and fused sentences |
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17 |
An effective sentence: Unity, Coherence, Emphasis, Parallelism, needed words, Shifts, Choppy sentences, Sentence variety |
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18 |
Style – Guidelines and Pitfalls I |
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19 |
Style – Guidelines and Pitfalls II |
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20 |
Paragraph writing: Unity, coherence and development in a paragraph. Simple listing paragraphs, order of importance paragraphs, |
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21 |
Time-order paragraphs; spatial order paragraphs; multi-paragraph composition |
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22 |
Essay writing: Essay and High Impact Language |
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23 |
Signal Words (transitions) for text’s organizational structure |
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24 |
The writing styles: Expository and report writing, |
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25 |
The writing styles: Descriptive and narrative writing, |
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26 |
The writing styles: Persuasive writing |
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27 |
Research writing and documenting sources – APA and MLA |
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28 |
Summarizing and Précis writing |
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29 |
Punctuation |
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30 |
Mechanics |