Course Overview

Students will improve their composition writing ability while learning about structure and various expressions appropriate for reports, through short composition writing practice, homework feedback, and lectures.

Learning Achievement

・Students will be able to write essays of about 3000 characters in length on social and cultural themes that include some abstract elements.
・Students will master the grammar, sentence structure, and expressions appropriate for writing short essays.

Competence

1.Communication ability, 2. Ability for critical and creative thinking,3. Data and information literacy　4. Broad perspective and international character，
　and 6. Cooperative, independent, and autonomous attitudes

Course prerequisites

(1) Students must be in the Intermediate to Advanced level, possess grammar and vocabulary knowledge equivalent to Upper-Intermediate level, and know at least 1000 kanji.
(2) As a rule, this course is limited to 1st and 2nd year undergraduate exchange students, short-term exchange students (Comprehensive Japanese 7 level), and Japanese returnee students. (The head of CEGLOC and the class teacher must give permission.)

Grading Philosophy

Homework 50%, Report 50%

Course schedule

Orientation
Level check composition
Textbook L.1 Basics of sentences 1
Textbook L.2 Basics of sentences 2
Textbook L.3 Showing issue
Think about one's theme of the essay
Textbook L.4 Showing purpose
Writing construction of the essay
Textbook L.5 Definition and classification
Textbook L.6 Graphs
Textbook L.7 Expressing change
Textbook L.8 Expressions of comparison
Midterm presentation
Textbook L.9 Consider the cause
Midterm presentation
Textbook L.10 Enumeration
Textbook L.11 Quotation L.12 Agree and disagree
Textbook L.13 Consequence
Textbook L.14 Conclusion
Review
Discussion about one's essay
Final presentation and discussion

Course type

Class Exercises

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Sugiura Chisato

Other information

・Students must submit assigned compositions on time.
・They will be reading the work of other students in class and are expected to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university