Writing 1 - 128 njd

                                                                  

Course number:                                   128 njd 

Course level:                                           1

Hours of instruction per week:           4

Course description:

Writing I is a pre-intermediate course designed to introduce students to paragraph structure and organization, i.e., topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence. It is also designed to teach students to write cohesive and coherent paragraphs on specific topics, using language appropriate to each topic. The paragraphs are of the following types: descriptive, narrative, expository, classificatory, and instructional. Students are also trained to write personal, informal letters and business letters. In addition, the course introduces/reviews features of grammar, style and cohesion, which serve to unify a paragraph.

Course objectives: 

• The courses aim at developing students’ ability to  write a well-connected expository, narrative, descriptive, persuasive, informative paragraph.

• Using a topic sentense & correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, indentation, cohesive ties between sentences.

• Being able to develop each idea with some suppoting detalils.
  

Text book:

Interactions 1 - Writing (Gold Edition)

Course Syllabus: