Essay Writing 1 - BBNAN02300
spring, 2018
FROM SENTENCE TO COMPOSITION
course description
Reuss Gabriella, PhD
Class: Monday10.15-11.45, Tárogató út 2. Room 125
Office hour:Monday and Wednesday, 14.15-15.00, Tárogató út 2. Office 040 – should you need a longer tutorial please notify me in email in advance to avoid clashes
Further information:news, student papers,model essays and slides are available at my site, in time to stay up to date.
Purpose: To help students develop their writing skills and prepare for the final exam at the end of the third year (the Proficiency Composition Task is a 300-350-word well-organized opinion/argumentative essay produced in 45 minutes). To discuss and analyse. To gain courage and confidence. Besides, all the important steps of essay writing (as a preparation for Essay Writing 2) will be introduced.
Methods: During the course, we are going to analyse several types/parts of essays, scrutinize student papers presented with comments in pairs, and work in co-operating pairs/groups.
Conditions of the pass mark at the end of the term: active participation in class, writing the mock exam paper, achieving at least 60% of the maximum score: 75 points, minimum score: 45points.
Individual in-class papers (2x10)20 points
Individual home paper (1x10)10 points
In-class activity (10x2)20 points
Evaluations (3x5)15 points
Team essays (2x5) 10 points
altogether:75 points
Attendance:Any three classes may be skipped,except the occasion of the in-class (mock)paper (date is fixed for April 16!).Come prepared each time (even if you were absent the previous time): your thorough reading and commentary will help improve your peer’s writing. Bring along your paperand your commentson your peer’s writingboth electronically (pendrive) and on paper for each class(it is only this way you can get the maximum score).
Schedule:
week / date / planned in-class activity / homework for the subsquent classFeb 12 / Intro to the course, to constructive/positive commentary, brainstorming
Feb 19 / essay genres/types, ways of argumentation, the steps of the writing process / write abalanced essay in a team
Feb 26 / topic sentence, thesis, title, 5 paragraphs (Poe), discussion of team essays (balanced) / write an argumentative essay in a team
March 5 / paragraphing: topic+support
discussion: hw team-essays (argumentative)
March 12 / structure, outline, discussion: hw team-essays / write an argumentative essay of 300-350 words individually!
submit it by 9am before class
March 19 / drafting, end weight, discussion: hw indiv. essays / write an evaluation about each essay, submit it by 9am before class
March 26 / Easter break
April 2 / Easter break
April 9 / linkers, movers, connectives, discussion: hw evaluations, write an argumentative essay of 300-350 words in class (45 mins) in teams / write an evaluation (in team) about each paper,
submit it by 9am before class
April 16 / discussion: hw team paper evaluations, write an argumentative essay of 300-350 words in class (45 mins) individually in class (No.1) / write an evaluation (individually) about each paper,
submit it by 9am before class
April 23 / revision, discussion: individual argumentative in-class papers 1.
April 30 / national holiday / -
May 7 / write an argumentative essay of 300-350 words in class (45 mins) individually in class (No. 2), discussion: individual argumentative in-class papers 2. / -
May 14 / mutual feedback, grades / -