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Syllabus | EN 2106: Professional Writing III

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Writing skills: causes and results (10/05 hrs)

Focus: expressions used for describing causes/origins and expressions used for describing results. e.g. was caused by, has become, led to, resulted in, as a result of…

(Ref: Language in Use: Upper Intermediate-classroom Book page 80)

Read and list the expressions used for talking about causes and results

Write other expressions which could be used instead.

Select a headline and expand it into a paragraph, using expressions you have listed.

e.g. Explosion Kills 20 people: leaking gas pipe-damaged when road was repaired-

explosion -20 people killed.

More illiterate children-warns report: cuts in funds-fewer teachers-more children-

unable to raise funds

Informative/ expository writing (10/05 hrs)

Text types: travel experience, interpret graphs/maps, paraphrasing
Procedure: guided writing - Help in thinking ideas, ordering them, considering vocabulary and grammar.

Report writing (10/05 hrs)

Writing reports of discussions, /meetings
Annual reports: e.g. you are the secretary of the senior literary society. Write the annual report giving an account of the activities of the society during the year
Present a model with an activity. e.g. Read the following report and fill in the blanks with the words given below.

Imaginative writing (10/05 hrs)

Encourage students to create stories: Provide questions to stimulate writing. e.g. What ifyou see some aliens in your village?
Involve students in writing and illustrating books.
Writing based on pictures-creative dialogues/stories

Persuasive and argumentative writing (10/05 hrs)

Letters to the editor- Provide opportunities to read and collect different letters from

newspapers. Discuss structure, reason/argument/request etc. Get students to write

their own letters to the editor. Provide the topic and guidelines; help them in

planning, writing and redrafting.

Analytic writing (10/05 hrs)

Focus: critical and evaluative views of texts, drama, films and issues.
Take account of the student’s familiarity with the topic. Guide students to form their own view taking into account a range of evidence and opinion and to organize their ideas and information distinguishing between analysis and comment

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