Week 4 Raimes (1983) Chapter 2: Techniques in Planning the Class: Seven Basic Questions. ♦ Go over each of the seven questions in the text and discuss the practical applications of each one. How can we deal with these things in the reality of the Korean classroom. Avoiding wordiness ♦ Homework: Read Friedlander (1990) Writing Assignment 4 - Write a movie/book/game review. Week 5 Freidlander (1990) ♦ In this seminal article we will go over the idea of first language interference and how this affects the writing process. How much Korean can and should we use and more importantly how can we use it to best effect? The discussion of the article should lead us into the topic of just what things we might want to have the students do in English and what they can do in Korean. MATE Writing Test ♦ Following on the idea of context in writing we will take a quick look at the MATE writing test to get a feel for our homegrown writing assessment tool. Choosing a topic. ♦ Go over some of the techniques employed in finding topics and then how we narrow these to find one topic for our writing. Practice using a picture or series of pictures. Topic sentences ♦ Homework: Read (1990) Writing Assignment 5 - a narrative paragraph from Internet materials. Week 6 (1990) ♦ In this article we review how much time is actually necessary for writing to develop and how we can best use class time in relation to the teaching of writing. Links and transitions ♦ Do a rewrite of the homework essay (explanatory paragraph) and fix it up. ♦ Go over revision techniques. Homework: Read Connor and Farmer (1990) Writing Assignment 6 - Choose one piece of writing to revise. Week 7 Connor and Farmer (1990) ♦ In this article we look at the advantages of doing a topical structure analysis as a means of helping students revise their papers. This is interesting because it relates to the idea of outlining which is also presented this week. Sticking to the point. ♦ Go over some of the problems people have in sticking to the and give some suggestions for how coherence and relevance can be achieved. Outlining ♦
Week 4 ♦ Raimes (1983) Chapter 2: Techniques in Planning the Class: Seven Basic Questions. Go over each of the seven questions in the text and discuss the practical applications of each one. How can we deal with these things in the reality of the Korean classroom. ♦ Avoiding wordiness Homework: Read Friedlander (1990) Writing Assignment 4 - Write a movie/book/game review. Week 5 ♦ Freidlander (1990) In this seminal article we will go over the idea of first language interference and how this affects the writing process. How much Korean can and should we use and more importantly how can we use it to best effect? The discussion of the article should lead us into the topic of just what things we might want to have the students do in English and what they can do in Korean. ♦ MATE Writing Test Following on the idea of context in writing we will take a quick look at the MATE writing test to get a feel for our homegrown writing assessment tool. ♦ Choosing a topic. Go over some of the techniques employed in finding topics and then how we narrow these to find one topic for our writing. Practice using a picture or series of pictures. ♦ Topic sentences Homework: Read (1990) Writing Assignment 5 - a narrative paragraph from Internet materials. Week 6 ♦ (1990) In this article we review how much time is actually necessary for writing to develop and how we can best use class time in relation to the teaching of writing. ♦ Links and transitions ♦ Do a rewrite of the homework essay (explanatory paragraph) and fix it up. Go over revision techniques. Homework: Read Connor and Farmer (1990) Writing Assignment 6 - Choose one piece of writing to revise. Week 7 ♦ Connor and Farmer (1990) In this article we look at the advantages of doing a topical structure analysis as a means of helping students revise their papers. This is interesting because it relates to the idea of outlining which is also presented this week. ♦ Sticking to the point. Go over some of the problems people have in sticking to the and give some suggestions for how coherence and relevance can be achieved. ♦ Outlining