1. CUS Spring Semester 2010 English Writing II Instructor: YiChin Lin Required Textbook: Effective Academic Writing 2: The Short Essay, New Edition, by Alice Savage

2. Teaching Objectives The purpose of this course is to help students to write clear, logical and well- organized expository compositions. It offers a varied selection of topics and rhetorical patterns covering narrative essay, opinion essay, and comparison and contrast essay.

3. Teaching Method In order to achieve this goal, students will be required to maintain unity and coherence in written assignments through such devices as explicit statement of the point, topic sentences in paragraphs, transitional words and phrases, and a significant organization of the evidence. Other grammar exercises will also be practiced at the end of each unit.

4. Grading Attendance: 10 ﹪ (Each absence, including any excuses, will deduct 5 points, and each late arrival minus 1 point) Class Participation ： 10 ﹪ Assignments ： 40 ﹪ Midterm ： 20 ﹪ Final ： 20 ﹪

5. Week 1 Course Introduction & Unit 3 Narrative Essay Part 1 Warm-up Activities

6. Week 2 Unit 3 Narrative Essay Part 2 : Brainstorming and Outling

7. Week 3 Unit 3 Narrative Essay Part 3 : Showing Sequence in Narrative Essays, Time Adverbs, Subordinating Conjunctions, and Adding Details to Essays

8. Week 4 Unit 3 Narrative Essay Part 4 : Using the Past Continuous in Narrative Essays, Past Time Clauses, Simultaneous Activities, Interrupted Activities, and Events in Sequence

9. Week 5 Unit 3 Narrative Essay Part 5 : Putting It All Together

10. Week 6 Holiday Holiday

11. Week 7 In-class English Composition

12. Week 8 Midterm Exam

13. Week 9 Unit 4 Opinion Essay Part 1 : Stimulating Ideas

14. Week 10 Unit 4 Opinion Essay Part 2 : Opinion Organization

15. Week 11 Unit 4 Opinion Essay Part 3 : Developing Your Ideas: Facts and Opinions, Interpreting Facts to Support an Opinion, Counter-Argument and Refutation

16. Week 12 Unit 4 Opinion Essay Part 4 : Editing Your writing: Using quantity Expressions in Opinion Essays, Quantity Expressions, Using Connectors to Show Support and Opposition

17. Week 13 Unit 4 Opinion Essay Part 5 : Putting It All Together

18. Week 14 In-class English Composition

19. Week 15 Oral Presentation

20. Week 16 Oral Presentation

21. Week 17 Review

22. Week 18 Final Exam