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Intermediate Composition 2 (Higher Intermediate)
- Pukyong National University (Daeyeon Campus)
- Fall 2020
- Course #109820
- Syllabus (forthcoming)
- Room: C25-530 (allotted room, but not likely used)
- Instructional medium: This course will be conducted with a blend of live Zoom sessions and some uploaded, pre-recorded videos in the LMS. It is unlikely that we will hold live classes in our classroom.
Prof. Kent Lee
- Office: C25-1103
- Office hours: By appointment
1 Course description
This course is designed mainly for sophomores, juniors and seniors in social science and humanities fields. The goals of the course consist of improving your academic English writing skills, and expressing yourselves better in English. This includes specific skills like:
- Writing different types of paragraphs (definition, classification, narrative, etc.)
- Prewriting techniques
- Using basic sentence types effectively; this includes common second-language issues such as essay structure, style, wording, and grammar issues.
- Developing main ideas, topic sentences, and body paragraphs
1.1 Readings and materials
The textbook for this course is a course packet, which will be made available in a PDF file in the LMS. Other materials will be available in the LMS and at this course website.
2 Tentative schedule
This is tentative, so you can expect changes and other activities, including readings, short paragraph assignments, and other short assignments. (HW = homework; ex. = exercise; ¶ = paragraph writing exercise; GF = online Google Forms; SE = short essay.)
| week | date | topics | assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 Sept. | Intro; self-intros; narrative paragraphs | GF; email ¶ |
| 02 | 07 Sept. | Narrative & descriptive ¶s; verb tenses | |
| 03 | 14 Sept. | Classification & example¶s; delimiters | |
| 04 | 21 Sept. | Definition ¶s; delimiters | ¶ |
| 05 | 28 Sept.* | Process ¶s; infinitives, gerunds | |
| 06 | 05 Oct. | Contrast & comparison ¶s; relative clauses | |
| 07 | 12 Oct. | Evaluation ¶s; modals | ¶ |
| 08 | 19 Oct. | Cause & effect ¶s | |
| 09 | 26 Oct. | Argumentation | |
| 10 | 02 Nov. | Midterms | Midterm |
| 11 | 09 Nov. | Inductive, deductive, & hypothesis testing ¶s | |
| 12 | 16 Nov. | Analysis ¶s | ¶ |
| 13 | 23 Nov. | Problem-solution ¶s | |
| 14 | 30 Nov. | Problem-solution; citing sources | ¶ |
| 15 | 07 Dec. | Citing sources (Chicago Manual) | |
| 16 | 14 Dec. | Argumentation | |
| ? | ? | Finals week | Final paper |
