1. BBI 2421 GENERAL WRITING SKILLS SECOND FACE-TO-FACE MEETING
MS. NURAMIRA ANUAR
address:
Contact number:
Office: Room 4, Bilik Seri Buana, Sanggar Bahasa,
Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, UPM

2. Overview of today’s meeting
Topics to be covered from Week 8-14
Essay Writing
Structure of an Essay (Focus: Opinion Essay)
Thesis Statement
Developing Support/details sentences
Summarizing & Paraphrasing
APA Referencing Guidelines
Writing Assignment 2
Final Examination (Sample Questions)

3. Evaluation matters…what’s left?
Assignments:
Writing Assignment %
SDL Part %
Final Examination %

4. Topics covered (Week 1-7)
Subject verb agreement
Sentence errors
Parallelism
Run-ons
Comma splice
Fragments
Paragraph writing (Topic sentence, supporting sentence & concluding sentence)
Transition signals