| Teaching Staff
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Prof. Dr. Mehmet DEMİREZEN |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
- |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
- |
| 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. |
| Course Content |
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. |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
The parts of a composition or essay: Margins, page numbers, title |
| 2. Week |
The parts of a composition or essay: Writing introductory paragraphs, writing conclusion paragraphs |
| 3. Week |
The parts of a composition or essay: The patterns of paragraph organisation, making an outline |
| 4. Week |
Exposition: Explanatory composition or essay, planning the composition or essay |
| 5. Week |
Exposition: process analysis composition and essay, instructional process analysis composition and essay |
| 6. Week |
Exposition: Informational process analysis composition and essay, analysis of explanation: outline |
| 7. Week |
Narration: Some narrative principles, personal narratives |
| 8. Week |
Midterm |
| 9. Week |
Narration: Objective narratives, expository narratives |
| 10. Week |
Narration: Biography, autobiography, journals, diary, letters, and memoirs |
| 11. Week |
Argumentation: Reasoning processes, organizing an argumentative composition or essay |
| 12. Week |
Argumentation: Avoiding the fallacies, directions on planning |
| 13. Week |
Expository description |
| 14. Week |
Emotional description |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| 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 |
Demirezen, M. (2010), The Essentials of Composition and Short Essay Writing (1st edition) |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| LO1 | LO2 | LO3 | PQ1 | | | | PQ2 | | | | PQ3 | | | | PQ4 | | | | PQ5 | x | | | PQ6 | | | | PQ7 | | x | x | PQ8 | | x | x | PQ9 | | | | PQ10 | | | | PQ11 | | | | PQ12 | | | | PQ13 | | | | PQ14 | | | | PQ15 | | | | PQ16 | | | | PQ17 | | | | PQ18 | | | | PQ19 | | | | PQ20 | | | | PQ21 | x | | | PQ22 | | | |
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