Course Overview

Students learn the skills of gathering and organising ideas, planning, drafting, revising and rewriting texts. This means plenty of reading and above all writing (mostly as homework), but also a lot of planning, discussion and peer evaluation in class. There will also be error correction and remedial language work as required. A wide a variety of writing genres are covered. Students are also asked to keep a journal, which I read at mid-term and at the end of the semester. This course involved a lot of work out of class, and students unable to carry out all the writing assignments required risk failing the course.

Learning Achievement

*to practice writing full compositions, especially narrative, descriptive and discursive essays.

*to improve writing skills by writing as much as possible.

*to learn to gather ideas and organise them, then draft, redraft and edit a piece of writing.

*to learn how to appreciate and criticise one own and others?writing.

*to use writing to communicate.

*to write in a variety of genres, e.g. letters (formal & informal), reviews, reports, journals.

Competence

Course prerequisites

*Prerequisite: English Composition (Ⅰ)(2)
*Majors-only (including minor and double major students).

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Davies Witton

Other information

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

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