Writing is fun!

TENTATIVE PLAN OF WORK

Mondays and Thursdays

From March 3^rd to June 30^th

March:

• Course presentation: what is writing?
• Differences between writing and speaking
• Understanding how the written language functions
• The organization of texts above the sentence level

April:

• Genres
• Layouts
• Cohesion and coherence
• Paragraph writing

May:

• Approaches to the teaching of writing: process
• Writing in academic and study settings
• Rhetorical approach vs genre approach
• Argumentation and style

June:

• Essays
• Study notes
• Abstracts
• Responding to student writing

TIMETABLE FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS:

Draft of final assignment: April 28^th

Final assignment: June 30^th

VS: July 10^th

REFERENCE LIST:

1.       BYRNE, Donn. Teaching Writing Skills: Longman, 1979.

2.       JOLLY, David. Writing Tasks. Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

3.       HEDGE, T. Writing. Oxford: OUP, 1988.

4.       TRIBBLE, C. Writing. Oxford: OUP, 1996.