《英语写作》课程教学大纲.docVIP

Syllabi for English Writing (英语写作教学大纲，含考评方式与学习指南) Basic English Writing Course Syllabus Course Title: Basic English Writing Course Number: 0131017 Lecture Hours per Week: 2 Contact Hours per Semester: 40 Course Description: Basic English Writing stresses basic communication skills with emphasis on sentence skills and paragraph structure with a review of mechanics, sentence patterns, and correct usage. The students will receive systematic and intensive training to write satisfactory paragraphs with a statement of main idea or purpose and supporting details and to show mastery of sentence structure. Mastery means a minimum or absence of major errors of grammar and usage. Specific Course Objectives: At the end of the course, the students should have demonstrated, through tests, quizzes, reading assignments, class discussions, and writing assignments, ability to do the following: Analyzing a written text in terms of its purpose Writing unified, coherent, and complete paragraphs Making each sentence of a paragraph contribute to the main idea Arranging sentences of a paragraph in a clear logical order Linking sentences in a paragraph by means of using pronouns, transitional words and expressions, and parallel structure Arranging sentences in a paragraph to emphasize the most important point of the paragraph Varying the structure and length of sentences to make a composition more pleasing and effective Using words that are exact, idiomatic, and fresh Avoiding wordiness Avoiding misplaced and dangling modifiers Using subordination in a sentence to relate ideas more concisely and effectively Avoiding needless shifts in tense, mood, voice, person, number, tone, and style Recognizing sentence fragments and judging when and when not to use them Recognizing and correcting ineffective comma splices and/or fused sentences Using the appropriate verb forms Making a pronoun unmistakably refer to and agree in number and person with its antecedent Capitalizing, italicizing, under