98年第1學期-0148 英文作文（三） 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class reports and discussions	50	Active participation in class is recommended
Mid-term paper	20	This is a short paper based on class reports and discussions
Final Term Paper	30	Fully researched Term Paper

教育目標

This course is designed to offer students a more comprehensive and intensive study /use of the English Language covering a wide range of developments that include situations in society and involve politics, religion, science, environment, personality, history, psychology etc.. Students will also be able to analyze and criticize literatures that involve any of these situations after gaining knowledge from this course. Special stress will be put towards public speaking and the use of written English for special purposes.

課程概述

Composition 3 is a third-year required course. As this course is part of the Comp/Oral series, its main aim is to give final shape and polish the skills of the students in writing. Students are taught to write academic essays in various rhetorical styles including essays about literature. Students also have to be able to formulate and pursue intellectual and professional goals. The course will help increase the mental flexibility of the students and they are required to write a research paper on an independently researched topic. This course is taught together with Oral Training 3.

基本資料

必修課，學分數：2-2
上課時間：四/3,4[FL010]
修課班級：外文系3A
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：1由系辦編班2口訓及作文任一門上期未達60分下期不得續修

參考書目

As this is a Language-based course, no specific book is prescribed. Students generate their own materials for class as the situation demands. Further handouts are acquired as per the discussions in class.

At the end of each semester, students, in consultation with the teacher, decide on a contemporary novel to read.
1: Erich Segal. Love Story.
2: Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha.
3: E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
4: Paulo Coelho. Brida.
5: Vikas Swarup. Q & A.