Guia docente 2009_10 Facultad de Filología y Traducción

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
A. READING
1. Strategies	1.1 Locating main ideas and thesis statements 1.2 Locating subordinate ideas 1.3 Understanding relationship between main and supporting ideas 1.4 Locating claims and supporting evidence 1.5 Understanding relationship between claims and supporting evidence 1.6 Understanding organizational strategies of paragraphs and texts 1.6.1 Locating and understanding use of key concepts in a given text: Topic, Restriction, Illustration, Analysis, Conclusion
2. Purposes	2.1 Reading for information: writing accurate summaries 2.2 Reading for interpretation: 2.2.1 Analyzing the rhetorical situation of a text: (relationship between writer, audience, text type, purpose, and register) 2.2.2 Writing a critical response
3. Text Types	3.1 Literary (or "Personal") Essays 3.2 Articles and other expository texts
4. Vocabulary Topics	4.1 Study Units from Vocabulary for First Certificate: 4.1.1 Health and fitness, illness and treatment 4.1.2 Music, sounds 4.1.3 Advertising, music, telephoning 4.1.4 Jobs, personal qualities, employment and unemployment 4.1.5 Movement, sports 4.1.6 Transportation, travel, holidays 4.1.7 Food and drink, meals, art 4.1.8 Television and radio, newspapers and magazines, books 4.1.9 Science, the environment 4.1.10 Crime, opinions 4.2 Vocabulary contained in assigned readings
B. WRITING
1. Using a dictionary	1.1 Concepts in learning vocabulary: field, register, collocation, connotation, metaphor, polysemy, culture. 1.2 Distinguishing similar words 1.3 Distinguishing words according to variety
2. Writing Process	2.1 Gathering ideas: brainstorming, clustering, freewriting, outlining 2.2 Organizing and revising: outlining, drafting, reader feedback, rewriting 2.3 Editing and proofreading: register, clauses, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, verb tense consistency, spelling, etc.
3. Evaluating Writing	3.1 Giving peer feedback 3.2 Evaluation with a rubric
4. Structure: Coherence and cohesion	4.1 Relating structure to purpose and audience 4.2 Paragraph structure: organization and cohesion 4.2.1 Use of topic sentences 4.2.2 Use of "TRIAC" structure in paragraphs: topic, restriction, illustraction, analysis, conclusion 4.2.3 Linguistic cohesion 4.3 Text structure 4.3.1 Distinguishing inductive and deductive structure 4.3.2 Use of thesis statements 4.3.3 Design of opening and concluding paragraphs 4.3.4 Use of "TRIAC" structure in for textual coherence: topic, restriction, illustraction, analysis, conclusion
5. Types of Writing	5.1 Writing based on reading: 5.1.1 Summaries 5.1.2 Personal responses 5.1.3 Critical responses 5.2 Description and definition essays 5.3 Comparison-Contrast essays 5.4 Opinion essays