| Teaching Staff
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Hürriyet KONUR |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
Teaching students write different essays using different patterns of organization, improves critical, inductive and deductive reasoning. Using the information in the reading passages writes critical unified and coherent essays. Makes research in library and in the web. Organizes the sources.
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| Course Content |
Critical thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning, and advanced reading skill like reading in between the lines,
analyzing a reading passage, writing coherent and unified example, compare and contrast, classification, process
analysis, argumentative essays, making research in the libraries, giving quotation, making list of the sources. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and were successful at the end of semester will acquire the followings;
LO1 – improves critical, inductive and deductive reasoning skills
LO2 – Learns different methods to write coherent and unified essays
LO3 -By using the information in reading passages writes different types of essays.
LO4-By participating in class discussions improves oral communication skills. - |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction, student responsibilities, review of the previous semester |
| 2. Week |
Introduction to essay |
| 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 |
Mid-term Exam |
| 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 |
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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 and Grammar.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 | 2 | 1 | PO3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | PO5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | PO6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PO7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | PO8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | PO9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PO10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | PO11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | PO15 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | PO16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO18 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO21 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | PO22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | PO24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO25 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO26 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | PO27 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | PO28 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | PO29 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
1= Very weak 2= Weak 3= Moderate 4= Strong 5= Very strong |