PINES CITY COLLEGES

GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Course Syllabus in English 2

Second Semester, School Year 2014 – 2015

PCC PHILOSOPHY:

Pines City Colleges believes that education makes a man and that a holistic education brings about the most desirable changes in an individual’s
personal and professional life.

INSTITUTIONAL VISION:

A premier learning institution, whose graduates are mature, well-balanced, imbued with values, and who are responsive to local and global
needs.

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION:

PCC is committed to develop the student’s potentials to the maximum.

VISION OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:

The General Education Department envisions to develop learners with diverse knowledge on technological literacy, inventive thinking, effective
communication and high productivity, and to develop professionally competent and responsive individuals to local and global needs of the school and
community.

MISSION OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:

 The General Education Department is committed to provide well-rounded learners who are ready to serve in a complex, interconnected, and
rapidly changing world and to inculcate desirable changes as God-loving, responsible, liberal and holistically upright individual in personal and in
professional life.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
The General Education Department aims to:

1. train students to be God-fearing and loving, responsible and morally upright individuals;
2. provide students with a broad knowledge in natural, human and mathematical sciences to prepare them for the pursuit of other related professions;
3. enhance social and technical skills with emphasis in verbal and written communication arts, analytical thinking and leadership;
4. cultivate in students tolerance for differences in beliefs, values, arts and culture of people ; and
5. develop healthy, physically fit and active members of the society.

COURSE NUMBER: ENGLISH 2

I. COURSE DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Writing in the Discipline

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to develop basic research and writing skills of students in their specific field of study. It emphasizes on the rhetorical
paragraphs of unity, coherence and emphasis and the application of such principles in research paper writing.
Course Units: 3 units lecture and exercises
Hours/Terms: 51 hours lecture and exercises
Prerequisite/Co-requisite: English 1

III. COURSE RATIONALE

Writing in the Discipline is a course designed to help students develop their competence in communicating ideas effectively through sentence and
paragraph construction. This subject addresses the needs of students seeking to consolidate their English language and communication skills. Study in this
area is strategically oriented to the refinement of students’ skills within an academic environment. Effective communication skills in medical courses
benefit the patient with greater customer satisfaction, the medical practitioner with career satisfaction and the health care system at large with motivated
and empowered health workers.
IV. COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Review and recall the parts of speech together with their proper usage and location in a sentence.
2. Recognize and differentiate a phrase from a clause and a fragment from a sentence.
3. Write meaningful and grammatically correct sentences following different structures, functions and patterns.
4. Recognize active voice from passive voice and to correctly transform active voice into passive.
5. Know when to appropriately apply active voice and passive voice in sentence construction.
6. Employ the different ways of paragraph development in writing paragraphs following the rules of coherence and cohesion.
7. Write a substantial term paper following the steps in preparing and creating one.

V. COURSE CONTENT

INTENDED LEARNING TASKS ASSESSMENT HOURS AND DATES

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
MODULES METHODOLOGY MTW

1. Review and recall the Parts of Speech Lecture-Discussion Recitation Jan. 19, 20, 21
parts of speech together Socratic Method
with their proper usage and 1. Noun
location in a sentence. 2. Pronoun
3. Adjective
4. Verb
5. Adverb 3 hours
6. Conjunction
7. Preposition
8. interjection
2. Recognize and Fragment, Phrase and Clause Lecture – Discussion Written Activities Jan. 26, 27, 28
differentiate a phrase from Socratic Methid Quizzes Feb. 2,3,4
a clause and a fragment 1. Sentence Fragment
from a sentence. 2. Phrase
a. Structure
b. Usage
3. Dependent Clause
a. Structure
b. Usage 6 hours

3. Write meaningful and Sentence Lecture – Discussion Written activities Feb.

grammatically correct Sentence Construction Quizzes 9,10,11,16,17,18,23,24,
sentences following 1. Kinds according to structure: Editing sentences Oral Activity 25
different structures, a. Simple Sentence Identification
functions and patterns. b. Compound Through a story.
c. Complex Feb. 25 = Holiday
d. Compound – complex
2. Kinds according to function:
a. Declarative’
b. Interrogative
c. Imperative
d. Exclamatory
e. Optative
3. Kinds according to patterns:
a. S+V
9 hours
b. S+V+O
c. S+V+C
d. S+V+IO+DO
e. S+V+O+OC
 Kinds of Voices: Lecture-Discussion Written Activities
4. Recognize active voice 1. Active Voice Transforming Sentences Quizzes
from passive voice and to 2. Passive Voice Sentence Construction March
correctly transform active 2,3,4,9,10,11,16,17,18
voice into passive.

5. Know when to
appropriately apply active
voice and passive voice in 9 hours
sentence construction.

6. Employ the different Paragraph Writing Lecture-Discussion Composition Output March23,24,25,30,31,

ways of paragraph 1. Pre-writing Reading Assignments April 1,6,7,8,13,14,15
development in writing 2. Writing Process Writing Workshop Quizzes
paragraphs following the 3. Editing Process
rules of coherence and 4. Writing an Essay 12 hours
cohesion

7. Write a substantial term Writing a Term Paper Lecture –Discussion Term Paper Output April 20,21,22,27,28,29
paper following the steps in Library Reasearch Quiz May 4,5,6,11,12,13
preparing and creating one Writing Process Activities

12 hours

VI. GRADING SYSTEM

Grades will be computed according to the institutional policy:
 Prelim Grade = 70% CS + 30% Exam
Midterm Grade = 60 % CS + 40% Exam
Tentative Final Grade = 50% CS + 50 % Exam
FINAL GRADE = Prelim Grade + Midterm Grade + Tentative Final Grade
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VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baraceros, E. (2000). English Plus. Philippines: Rex Bookstore, Inc.

Hidalgo, A. et al. (1982). Effective Communication in English. Philippines: JMC Press, Inc.
Palma, J. & Mogol, M. (1997). Grammar and Composition (2nd ed.). Philippines: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Serrano, J. & Rustia, E. (1969). Let’s Write English Book 1. USA: American Book., Inc.
Murthy, J.D. (2012). Art of Sentence Making in English. New Delhi: Book Palace
Strunk, W. & White, E.B. (2000). The Elements of Style (4th ed.) Longman
Flauta, R. (2006). Master English Grammar in 28 Days. Philippines: FPR Publishing

PREPARED BY:

Cherry Cawis

APPROVED BY:

Engr. Ceclia Lim –Cabanilla

Area Head, General Education