WRITING III 2 CREDITS SEMESTER IV BY DEDI TURMUDI, M.A TESOL DEDY SUBANDOWO, M.A
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course trains students to express themselves by means of three types of unified and coherent paragraphs, descriptive, narrative, and expository paragraphs. They learn the principles of paragraph writing through modeling, inquiry, and discovery and practice writing paragraphs as class and home assignments. The students’ achievement is assessed by means of their class attendance, activity, portfolio, mid-semester test, and semester exams.
Objectives Students can distinguish and write narrative, descriptive, and expository paragraphs with adequate unity, coherence, and cohesion.
COURSE OUTLINE WRITING 3 (3 TYPES) 1)Modeling (Characteristics of paragraph types: narration, description and exposition Identifying paragraph types). 2)Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequate unity, & coherence: (peer conference). 3)Writing a descriptive paragraph Identifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequate cohesion. 4)Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying coherence, unity, and cohesion. 5)Identifying paragraphs with and without topic sentences, Writing a narrative paragraph without a topic sentence, Revising students’ work
6)Writing a guided narrative paragraph using a topic sentence given, Revising students’ work. 7)Writing a guided descriptive paragraph using a topic sentence provided, Revising students’ work. 8)Writing a descriptive paragraph using a topic sentence provided, Revising students’ work. 9)Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentence, given, Revising students’ work. 10)Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentence given Revising students’ work.
COMPOSITION General Statement/Hook Thesis Statement INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH WORDS Topic Sentences Supporting Sentences Concluding Sentences Body Paragraph words Concluding Sentences Summary Concluding Paragraph 100 words
TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS 1.COURSE OUTLINE 2.GROUP PRESENTATION 3.INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION 4.MID (OPTIONAL) 5.FINAL
ONLINE COURSE This study is designed to give new space for the students to explore more about their ideas in writing paragraphs. The student must create a blog where the works can be written and seen online and analysed by peer conference. The course sometimes will not do in the class.
References Arnaudet, Martin L. and Barret, Mary Ellen Paragraph Development. Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc. Jupp, TC and Milne, John. ____. Guided Paragraph Writing. London: Heinemann Educational Books. Blanchard, Karen and Root, Christine Ready to Write. New York: Longman