高級寫作(一)

The course is intended to provide an arena for discussing and reviewing the editing skills of English language, and for writing practice based on the learnt skills. n.b. the course lecture will be delivered in mandarin

1. All students are therefore mandatory to apply for an NYCU o365 account to join our course channel on Teams. The NYCU o365 account application page can be found at: https://it.nycu.edu.tw/it-services/cloud-services/microsoft-365/ 2. After having your account, please use the code “may2uhc” to join the course channel on Teams. Or you can follow the link to our course channel here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3avpzlHCdmg8GvIX_px3txtfiwJLDwJLEfnqYUNdIhYb01%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=7fa71fcd-3f76-4e52-8514-c881c2e7d05c&tenantId=80a9abdb-7cef-443c-b040-3f8e75e9232e n.b. The syllabus is tentative for now due to the impact of the epidemic. Further modifications will be duly noted.

00. 09/13 Intro 01. 09/22 ch. 1 02. 09/29 ch. 1 (a, an — comprise) 03. 10/06 reading discussion (groups 4, 5) 04. 10/13 ch. 2 05. 10/20 writing practice 06. 10/27 ch. 2 (connote, denote — hopefully) 07. 11/03 mid-term exam 08. 11/10 ch. 3 09. 11/17 writing practice 10. 11/24 ch. 3 (human — possessives and gerunds); ch. 4 11. 12/01 holiday 12. 12/08 ch. 4 (preparatory to... — than); ch. 5 (that, which — wise) 13. 12/15 writing practice 14. 12/22 reading discussion (groups 1, 2, 3) 15. 12/29 final

Writing Practices 40% Mid-Term and Final 30% In-Class Oral Reports 30%

Line by Line, Claire Kehrwald Cook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1985. (which will be put on our library’s reserved shelf)