1. To get students familiarized with different types of essays.

2. To train students to write short English essays coherently and fluently.

Week 1       2/25     Last semester’s final returned; to be revised with the instructor’s special instructions; exchange with your peer when the revision is done. Discuss the following topic: What is the so-called 校學士or院學士？ Do you think it would be a good program?

Week 2       3/04    Essay 1: A reflection on the university interdisciplinary bachelor degree innovation

Week 3       3/11     Peer review and revision (focusing on diction & sentence pattern)

Week 4       3/18     Grammar review 1

Week 5       3/25     Essay 2: a cause and effect analysis on …(the increase of random attacks, hiking housing prices, etc.)

Week 6       4/01     Peer review and revision

Week 7       4/08     Holiday (last semester’s NCHU homecoming make-up rest day)

Week 8       4/15     mid-term on IELTS writing task One (35 minutes)

Week 9   4/22     mid-term returned & individual consultation in the classroom

Week 10     4/29     Creative Essay 3: A dramatic monologue of (something or someone) following the example of Robert Browning or some other poets; E.g. yourself, an ancient mirror, a dying person, etc. (Discussion first, followed by in-class writing)

Week 11     5/06      Peer review and revision

Week 12     5/13      Essay 4: A step-by-step guide to true happiness (Process analysis)

Week 13     5/20     Peer review and revision

Week 14     5/27      Final session on grammar; practice writing for the final

Week 15     6/03     Peer review and suggestions

Week 16     6/10     Final on IELTS writing Task Two (This semester no preparation time; exactly 40 mins and around 250 words)

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/568) 

1. 4 essays+ mid-term + final (including your progressive revision points & peer-review efforts) (80%). (Pay more attention to your revision. It involves not just editing, but sometimes also a complete structural change. Your peer review would also be added in your essay scores.)
2. Attendance+ participation: 30% (2% deduction for each absence or extreme tardiness. Active participation counts.)

3. grammar 25%
   structure/logic 25% diction 25% argument around up 25%

    
4. If you want to convert my final grade to a letter grade, the following is the conversion chart American Universities usually adopt: A⁺ ≥95, A≥ 90, A_-≥ 85-89, B⁺≥80-84, B ≥75-79, B_-≥70-74, C≥65. D or F ≤60