| Teaching Staff
|
Prof. Dr. Mehmet DEMİREZEN |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
Learning different essay types and writing techniques |
| Course Content |
Critical thinking ability, deduction through inductive and deductive techniques and advanced reading sub-skills such
as reading between the lines; examination of the information in reading texts, comparing with considering factors such
as totality, consistency and layout and writing essays as a response with a critical and merging approach, producing
texts of various essay types such as contrastive, categorical, cause and effect and discussion, library and internet
scanning, creating references. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and were successful at the end of semester will acquire the followings;
LO1 – Using the critical thinking ability which is one of the advanced sub-skills
LO2 - Understanding inductive and deductive techniques and reading between the lines
LO3 – Writing essays with a critical approach by analyzing the information of reading texts
LO4 - Writing essays of various essay types by considering factors such as totality, consistency and layout |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction, students responsibilities |
| 2. Week |
Introduction to Essay Writing |
| 3. Week |
My Favorite Sights”,”Why People Save Books” |
| 4. Week |
The Example Essay:“How Unwritten Rules Circumscribe Our Lives“,“Americanization is Tough on
Macho“ |
| 5. Week |
The Comparison and Contrast Essay:“Conversational Ballgames |
| 6. Week |
“My Two Brothers“ |
| 7. Week |
Revision |
| 8. Week |
Midterm |
| 9. Week |
The Classification Essay:“Motivation“,“Cold Remedies“ |
| 10. Week |
The Process Analysis Essay:“The Life of E-Mail“ |
| 11. Week |
Studying Math |
| 12. Week |
The Cause-and-Effect Analysis Essay:”Why They Excel”,”Causes of Mental Retardation” |
| 13. Week |
The Arguamentative Essay:”College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening” |
| 14. Week |
Science Who Needs It? |
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| Assessment |
| |
Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
25 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
7.5 |
| Practice (%) |
7.5 |
| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Smalley,Regina.Refining Composition Skills :Rhetoric andGrammar.Heinle and Heinle Publishers,Boston:2000 |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| LO1 | LO2 | LO3 | LO4 | PO1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | PO3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | PO5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PO6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | PO8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | PO9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | PO11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PO16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | PO17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | PO18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO21 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | PO22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO27 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | PO28 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | PO29 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
1= Very weak 2= Weak 3= Moderate 4= Strong 5= Very strong |