BBI 2421 GENERAL WRITING SKILLS SECOND FACE-TO-FACE MEETING MS. NURAMIRA ANUAR Email address: nuramira@fbmk.upm.edu.my Contact number: 012-5991019 Office: Room 4, Bilik Seri Buana, Sanggar Bahasa, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, UPM

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)

Evaluation matters…what’s left? Assignments: Writing Assignment 2 - 20% SDL Part 2 - 5% Final Examination - 30%

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