CourseEnglishWritingandGrammar.doc

PAGE  PAGE 4 Course: English Writing and Grammar Kevin Chen Course Description: This is a basic English grammar and writing course for college students. The goal of a basic writing course are generally practical, namely, the development of a readable style that will serve, later, for writing assignment in college courses. This course, therefore, hope to prepare students for stepping into the advanced writing training with confidence from both the improvement of grammatical usage and the awareness of the importance of correct writing. Sincerely, although to reach the goal of enabling students to write grammatically correct sentences in a short-term course would be too challenging for both teacher and students, the improvement in English writing and the awareness of the importance of correctness are the reachable goal. To improve English grammar and basic writing mechanics, there will be instructions, frequent practices, and assignments to help students write readable and grammatically acceptable English. The awareness of the importance of correct grammar means, first, to understand that writing for expression is as important as for being read, and second, to know how to scan the others’ sentences and re-scanning those of students themselves. Thus the awareness begins with reading and identifying the parts of speech in sentences, goes through seeking out the grammatical errors, and complete with searching for the correct usages and revising for their own writing. Some students are impatient with the conventional writing tasks and have difficulties in developing a readable style of writing; they are confined to the sentence as the main field of struggle and concern. To make a grammar-based course attainable, the reading materials, exercises and assignments include the texts from fables, newspaper articles, lyrics of popular songs, and written passages of accomplished writers. By frequent practices in English grammar and writing, this course aim to help