98年第2學期-1788 大二英文 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Attendance & Participation	15
Oral	15
Tests	10
Assignments	20

教育目標

Course Description: The course is designed to sharpen sociology students’ academic writing skills as well as to promote their critical thinking skills. The class involves extensive reading, writing practice of short essays, discussion, and oral presentation. With a focus on writing strategies, students are expected to develop skills in grammar, usage, mechanics, and sentence structure from sentences, paragraphs, to essays. Different writing genres (narration, description, classification, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, argumentation, etc.) will also be taught and read in class. Course Objectives: 1. To understand and use various strategies for reading. 2. To promote critical thinking. 3. To develop effective organization and idea development skills. 4. To improve sentence structure and clarity. 5. To compose essays through the writing process of planning, drafting, and revising. 6. To be able to express one’s ideas or write a business letter in English.

基本資料

必修課，學分數：3-3
上課時間：五/2,3,4[MⅡ220]
修課班級：社會系2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：人工選課；不開放推廣部附讀

參考書目

Required Text
Quest 3: Reading and Writing, 2nd ed. ,by Pamela Hartmann & Laurie Blass, McGraw-Hall.

Reference
Writing to Communicate: Paragraphs and Essays,3rd ed., by Cynthia A. Boardman &
Jia Frydenberg, Pearson Longman.
Paragraph Patterns, by Barbara Auerbach & Beth Snyder, Harcourt Brace