WRITING III

2 CREDITSSEMESTER IV

BYDEDI TURMUDI, M.A TESOLDEDY SUBANDOWO, M.A

COURSE DESCRIPTION• This course trains students to express

themselves by means of three types of unified and coherent paragraphs, descriptive, narrative, and expository paragraphs. They learn the principles of paragraph writing through modeling, inquiry, and discovery and practice writing paragraphs as class and home assignments. The students’ achievement is assessed by means of their class attendance, activity, portfolio, mid-semester test, and semester exams.

Objectives

• Students can distinguish and write narrative, descriptive, and expository paragraphs with adequate unity, coherence, and cohesion.

COURSE OUTLINEWRITING 3 (3 TYPES)

1) Modeling (Characteristics of paragraph types: narration, description and exposition Identifying paragraph types).

2) Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequate unity, & coherence: (peer conference).

3) Writing a descriptive paragraph Identifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequate cohesion.

4) Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying coherence, unity, and cohesion.

5) Identifying paragraphs with and without topic sentences, Writing a narrative paragraph without a topic sentence, Revising students’ work

6) Writing a guided narrative paragraph using a topic sentence given, Revising students’ work.

7) Writing a guided descriptive paragraph using a topic sentence provided, Revising students’ work.

8) Writing a descriptive paragraph using a topic sentence provided, Revising students’ work.

9) Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentence, given, Revising students’ work.

10)Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentence given Revising students’ work.

COMPOSITION

•General Statement/Hook•Thesis Statement

INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH 50-

75WORDS

•Topic Sentences•Supporting Sentences•Concluding Sentences

Body Paragraph 150-200 words

•Concluding Sentences•Summary

Concluding Paragraph 100

words

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

1. COURSE OUTLINE2. GROUP PRESENTATION3. INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION4. MID (OPTIONAL)5. FINAL

ONLINE COURSE

• This study is designed to give new space for the students to explore more about their ideas in writing paragraphs.

• The student must create a blog where the works can be written and seen online and analysed by peer conference.

• The course sometimes will not do in the class.

References • Arnaudet, Martin L. and Barret, Mary Ellen.

1990. Paragraph Development. Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc.

• Jupp, TC and Milne, John. ____. Guided Paragraph Writing. London: Heinemann Educational Books.

• Blanchard, Karen and Root, Christine. 2003. Ready to Write. New York: Longman