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College of Arts – Department of English Language and Literature

ENG – 312 – Essay Writing

Course Syllabus

Course Name – Essay Writing

Course Number – English 312

Credit Hours – 2 hours

Location: Main Campus – Olaisha

Office: Building 26, room 3m

Lecturer – H.Bedaiwi

e-mail: [e-mail]  

KSU SMS – Please register in KSU SMS.  Course ID is 53595

Course Description: This course offers practice in producing longer essays of several paragraphs. Attention is given two types of essay writing, mainly the classification and process – analysis essays. Students are also taught to use grammar in the following points: tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation, relative pronouns, and prepositions. MLA methods of research and documentation will be applied.

Course Aims and Objectives:

1. Write longer and substantial essays of several paragraphs on unseen topics.

2. Apply two types of essay writing, mainly the classification and process – analysis

essays.

3. Apply new methods of development used in the aforementioned types of essay

writing.

4. Use correct grammar in the following points: tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation,

relative pronouns, and prepositions.

5. Produce essays free of dangling modifiers, run-on sentences incorrect antecedents,

and sentence fragments.

6. Apply MLA methods of research and documentation.

 

Topics to be Covered:

 

Week	Topic	Page
1	General Introduction
2-4	MLA: -Writing Drafts  –Quotations  -Format of a Research Paper -List of work cited / Citations
	MLA Midterm #1
5-8	Chapter Nine: The Classification Essay Organizing and writing a classification essay Using only one principle of classification when dividing members of a group into categories Using of the turnabout method writing introductions Using transitions to increase coherence Reading: Learning about and discussing common health problems- Identifying categories in a classification essay Grammar: Reviewing correlative conjunctions and articles for classification	p197-198,201    p198-200 p205-206 p207   p203-2 205,208-209 294, 349-351,330
9	Midterm One – Classification Essay
9-13	Chapter Ten: The Process- Analysis Essay Planning, organizing, and writing a process-analysis essay Understanding the differences between a directional process and an informational process Being aware of how the intended audience of an essay affects the information that should be included in the essay-writing in class Being able to decide how to divide a process-analysis essay into paragraphs Using the dramatic entrance method of  writing introductions Using participial phrases to increase coherence Reading  : Learning about and discussing the world of computers – Identifying the steps in a process- analysis essay Grammar: Reviewing adverbial clauses of time reduced to participial  phrases, adverbial clauses of purpose, and conditionals	p224-228   p224     p227-234 p233-234 P235,303-305   p216-222   P235-236,303-313
14	Midterm Two – Process Analysis Essay
Exam Week	Final written exam

 

Schedule of Assessment:

Points	Week	Assessment Task	Assessment
10	Week 5	MLA –In class assessment	1
10	Weeks 5-8	Classification Essay In-class Assignments
15	Week 9	Midterm 1 – Classification Essay	2
10	Weeks 9-13	Process Analysis In-class Assignments
15	Week 13	Midterm 2- Process Analysis Essay	4
40	Examination Weeks	Final Exam	6

 

Required Texts:

Regina L. Smalley, Mary K. Rutten, Joan Rishel Kozyrv(eds.), Refining Composition Skills, Rhetoric and Grammar, fifth edition,Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 2001