This document outlines the goals and structure of a critical reading and writing course. The goal of the course is to develop students' critical thinking skills through summarizing and responding to texts. The course involves weekly assignments, including a final summary response essay of 750 words. It is graded based on tests, assignments, and the final essay. The 16-week course covers topics like paragraph structure, word meaning, annotation, outlining, argument analysis, summarization, response writing, and editing. Students are evaluated on originality, critical thinking, organization, grammar, and completing assignments on time.
This document outlines the goals and structure of a critical reading and writing course. The goal of the course is to develop students' critical thinking skills through summarizing and responding to texts. The course involves weekly assignments, including a final summary response essay of 750 words. It is graded based on tests, assignments, and the final essay. The 16-week course covers topics like paragraph structure, word meaning, annotation, outlining, argument analysis, summarization, response writing, and editing. Students are evaluated on originality, critical thinking, organization, grammar, and completing assignments on time.
This document outlines the goals and structure of a critical reading and writing course. The goal of the course is to develop students' critical thinking skills through summarizing and responding to texts. The course involves weekly assignments, including a final summary response essay of 750 words. It is graded based on tests, assignments, and the final essay. The 16-week course covers topics like paragraph structure, word meaning, annotation, outlining, argument analysis, summarization, response writing, and editing. Students are evaluated on originality, critical thinking, organization, grammar, and completing assignments on time.
To provide students with critical reading and writing skills to lead to students producing a summary response as a product of their critical thinking. Attendance: 85% - 100%
Being Punctual (No late coming)
Assignments: Weekly and Semester
(Summary Response Essay: 750 words) UTS 30 %
UAS 40%
ASSIGNMENTS AND QUIZZES 30 %
A : X 90 A- : 85 X < 90 B+ : 80 X < 85 B : 70 X < 80 B- : 65 X < 70 C+ : 60 X < 65 C : 50 X < 60 D : 40 X < 50 E : X < 40 WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION & PRE-TEST WEEK 2: SENTENCE STRUCTURES WEEK 3: PARAGRAPH: PARTS OF PARAGRAPHS PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPHS METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT WEEK 4: PARAGRAPH: UNITY AND COHERENCE WEEK 5: GUESSING WORD MEANING THROUGH AFFIXES WEEK 6: GUESSING WORD MEANING THROUGH CONTEXT WEEK 7: INTRODUCTION TO ESSAY WEEK 8: MID TEST WEEK 9: ANNOTATING WEEK 10: PLANNING SUMMARY RESPONSE ESSAY WEEK 11: ANALYZING ARGUMENTS
WEEK 12: SUMMARY AND PARAPHRASING
WEEK 13: WRITING SUMMARY RESPONSE ESSAY
WRITING SUMMARY WRITING RESPONSE
WEEK 14: WRITING SUMMARY RESPONSE ESSAY
CITATION WEEK 15: WRITING SUMMARY RESPONSE ESSAY EDITING AND PROOFREADING WEEK 16: FINAL TEST 1. ORIGINALITY 2. CRITICAL THINKING 3. IDEA ORGANIZATION 4.UNITY & COHERENCE 5. VOCAB AND GRAMMAR 6. PUNCTUATION