Intermediate Writing
Spring, 2016
Instructor: 吳茵茵 (Rachel Wu)
E-mail: wuyinyin@nccu.edu.tw
Textbook: Handouts prepared by the instructor.
Course objectives:
You’ll…
1. know more about yourself.
2. develop and organize your arguments.
Course description
The course focuses on academic and business writing trainings, covering
summary/abstract writing; three modes of essays; and business letters and documents.
The course aims to equip students with the ability to produce well-organized, logical,
and lucid essays and business documents.
Requirements and Rules
1. Class attendance, lesson preparation and active class participation are required.
2. One point will be deducted from your final grade for the first absence; two points
will be deducted from your final grade for the second absence. Starting from the third
absence, three points will be deducted from the final grade with each absence.
3. Being late or leaving early for over 10 minutes is treated as absence of one class
hour, resulting in one-point deduction from your final grade.
4. It is the student’s responsibility to find out what occurred and what was taught in
class during his or her absence.
5. All assignments are required to be submitted within due date. Two points will be
deducted from the final grade for each late submission.
Teaching approach
1. Articles and video clips will be used as materials for discussion and analysis.
2. Students will engage in: group discussion, individual work, pair work, and group
work.
3. The instructor will serve as a facilitator and a counselor.
Class assistants’ tasks
1. Equipment (laptop, classroom…)
2. Handouts & FB
Grading
Participation 15 %
Portfolio 60 %
Workshop 25 %
Schedule (Wed)
Week
1
2
3
Submit self-exploration journal 1
4
Submit self-exploration journal 2
5
Submit self-exploration journal 3
6
Business writing workshop 1
7
8
Submit self-exploration journal 4 & portfolio
9
10
11
12
Business writing workshop 2
13
14
Business writing workshop 3
15
Submit portfolio
16
17
18
Business writing workshop 4