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Instructor Syllabus
ENG 060: Language Fundamentals
15 Weeks
Please note that the following is a suggested course outline. You may want to modify it to fit your students’ needs. Remember that your goal is to improve students’ writing by linking all grammar/punctuation assignments to writing and reading activities. Summary writing and paragraph writing should be done on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Daily journals are also a good way for students to improve their writing skills. You do not have to grade (or read) all of the work; credit can be given for completion of some assignments. The goal is not to “cover” information but to focus on ways for students to master writing complete sentences and unified, coherent paragraphs.
REMINDER: Students benefit the most from frequent feedback. You might want to give short, frequent quizzes and other assignments.
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Text Chapters |
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· Introduction, syllabus, overview of text, and writing diagnostic
· Writing: Demonstrate an understanding of the writing process, audience, purpose, and brainstorming
· Language Skills: Sentence Skills; note also the Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test in Appendix C
· Reading: Part 4, Readings for Writers; note that there are 16 readings in this section so that you can assign one reading per week.
· Use word processing to write compositions |
Chapters 1
Chapter 6 (Appendix C)
Part 4
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2 |
· Language Skills: Chapter 7, Fragments
· Writing: Chapter 3, Writing Effective Paragraphs
· Reading: Part 4 |
Chapter 7
Chapter 3
Part 4 |
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3 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 8, Run-ons
· Writing: Writing a paragraph—Ch. 4, #7, Description
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Chapter 8
Chapter 4, #7
Part 4 |
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4 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 9, Sentence Variety
· Writing: Writing a paragraph—Ch. 4, #8, Narration; Ch. 3, Revising
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Chapter 9
Ch. 4, #8
Ch. 3
Part 4
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5 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 10 and 11, Verbs
Writing: Writing a paragraph—Ch. 4, #1, Exemplification
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Ch. 4, #1
Part 4 |
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6 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 12, subject-verb agreement
· Writing: Writing a paragraph--Ch. 4, #2, Process
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Ch. 12
Ch. 4, #2
Part 4
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7 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 13, Consistent Verb Tense
· Writing: Writing a paragraph—Ch. 4, #3, Cause/Effect
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Chapter 13
Ch. 4, #3
Part 4 |
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8 |
· Language Skills: Chapters 15 and 16, pronouns
· Writing: Midterm--in-class writing; give students a choice of several different types of paragraphs
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Chapters 15 & 16 |
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9 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 28, commas
· Writing: Ch. 4, # 4, Comparison/contrast
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Chapters 28
Ch. 4, #4
Part 4
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10 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 31-33, Spelling
· Writing: Continue work on Comparison/contrast paragraph
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Chapter 31-33
Part 4
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11 |
· Language Skills: Ch. 17, Adjectives and Adverbs
· Writing: Ch. 5, Moving from paragraph to essay
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment
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Chapter 17
Chapter 5 |
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12 |
· Language Skills: Review/enrich grammar and punctuation skills as needed
· Writing: Continue moving from paragraph to essay
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Chapter 5
Part 4 |
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13 |
· Language Skills: Review/enrich grammar and punctuation skills as needed
· Writing: Continue moving from paragraph to essay
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Chapter 5
Part 4 |
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14 |
· Language Skills: Review/enrich grammar and punctuation skills as needed; have student do Sentence Skills Achievement Test, Appendix D
· Writing: Continue moving from paragraph to essay
· Reading: Part 4 reading assignment |
Appendix D
Chapter 5
Part 4 |
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15 |
· Grammar Final (optional)
· Writing Final (Required departmental writing final) |
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