English as a Second Language 004 Course Outline

Lesson 1:

The Writing Proceess

Lesson 2:

Strategies for Academic Reading

Lesson 3:

Writing a Vivid Narrative

Lesson 4:

Introduction to Argumentation

Lesson 5:

Paraphrasing
Quotation
Citing Sources
Plagiarism

Lesson 6:

Introducing Sentence Structures
Incorporating Sources

Lesson 7:

Position Paper Revisions

Lesson 8:

How to Write a Synthesis
Argumentative Synthesis

Lesson 9:

Defining a Term
Use of Appeals and Strategies to Argue
Drafting an Argumentative Synthesis

Lesson 10:

Enhancing Your Argument
Language Use in an Argumentative Synthesis

Lesson 11:

Language in Effective Argumentation

Lesson 12:

Final Thoughts

 

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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

Gustave Flaubert 

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

Oscar Wilde


"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain