1.1 Literary (or "Personal") Essays
1.2 Articles and other expository texts
2. Strategies
2.1 Locating main ideas and thesis statements
2.2 Locating subordinate ideas
2.3 Understanding relationship between main and supporting ideas
2.4 Argumentation:
2.4.1 Locating claims and supporting evidence
2.4.2 Evaluating credibility of arguments and sources
2.5 Understanding organizational strategies of texts and of paragraphs
2.5.1 Analyzing textual coherence
2.5.2 Analyzing linguistic coherence
2.5.3 Analyzing organizational structures in expository texts: Topic, Restriction, Illustration, Analysis, Conclusion
2.5.4 Situating a text culturally
2.5.5 Situating a text rhetorically (in relation to write, purpose, audience, register, text type.)
3. Purposes
3.1 Reading for information: writing accurate summaries
3.2 Reading for interpretation
3.2.1 Analyzing linguistic, rhetorical, and cultural content
3.2.2 Critiquing arguments, reasoning, and definitions
3.2.3 Writing a critical response
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.
2.4 Strategies for writing essay exams.
3. Evaluating Writing
3.1 Giving and defending peer feedback
3.2 Evaluation with a rubric
4. Structure: Coherence and cohesion
4.1 Relating structure to purpose and audience
4.1.1 Choice of register and text type according 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 Textual structure and cohesion
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 Design of body paragraphs
5. Types of Writing
5.1 Writing based on reading:
5.1.1 Summaries
5.1.2 Personal and Critical responses
5.2 Writing Techniques and Strategies
5.2 Argumentative essays
5.2.1 Use of claims and evidence
5.2.2 Avoiding faulty reasoning
5.2.3 Citation of sources (MLA/APA)
5.3 Comparison-Contrast essays
5.4 Definition essays
5.5 Organizational strategies based on comparison/contrast, definition, classification.
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