學術英文寫作

The course is designed to improve students' English writing ability to an academic level following the following four categories: 1. Students will improve grammar for writing. For example, students will learn complex sentence structures; correct usage of subject-verb agreement, pronoun reference, verb tense and forms, capitalization, and punctuation; and correcting errors such as fragments, choppy sentences, stringy sentences, run-on sentences, and unparalleled structures. 2. Students will first review paragraph structures and then learn to expand a paragraph to an essay. 3. Student will learn different types of essay structures such as logical division of ideas, opinion essays, compare/contrast essays, argumentative essays, etc. 4. Students will also learn to write essays adding citations correctly (e.g. APA/MLA/Chicago).

Class Participation 10% Mid-term exam: 10% Facebook Contribution: 20% Writing Portfolio (including all the writings, summary, essays, etc. and a final reflection): 60%

No textbook will be used. Online resources and supplementary materials will be provided through handouts and made available on New e3.

地點

Room 309, Humanity Building 3 (人社三館)

時間

By appointment

聯絡方式

Email: shuminlin10@gmail.com Phone: (03)5712121 *52766