Hong Kong Community College

English-in-the-Discipline Writing Support Programme -

Essay Writing Workshop for Students Taking SEHH1007 Information Technology
for Business
Course Outline
Semester One 2020/21

Subject Leader
Phoebe Siu (Office: HHB-1605, Tel: 3746-0471, email: phoebe.siu@cpce-polyu.edu.hk)
Subject Lecturer
Raymond Ng (Office: WK-1423, Tel: 3746-0426, email: lcraymond.ng@cpce-polyu.edu.hk)

Objective
This essay writing workshop is designed to enhance students’ generic academic writing
skills as well as subject-specific genres. Students will learn how to write the Group Project
Assignment for SEHH1007 Information Technology for Business. Feedback on draft
assignments will also be given to participants in the later part of the workshop.

Expected Learning Outcomes

On successfully completing this subject, students will be able to:
 Use effective strategies to analyse texts specific to their study discipline;
 Use appropriate lexical-grammatical resources to write academic text(s) specific to
their study discipline.

Tentative Teaching Schedule

Week
Workshop Teaching Topics
Class 1 Class 2
W5 W5 Understanding the assignment task
Oct 7 Oct 8  Identify the requirement in the assignment guideline

 Understand the role of business analysts

 Learn the basic structure of a business proposal

W6 W6 - The introductory paragraph

Oct 14 Oct 15
 Analyze the structure of an introduction of a proposal

 Use appropriate lexico-grammatical resources to write an

effective introduction of a proposal

- Reporting findings

 Content

 Language of comparison and contrast

- Writing skill: the verbal group
 W7 W7 - The concluding paragraph
Oct 21 Oct 22
 Content

 Paraphrasing skill
- Referencing

 Style(s) of referencing

 In-text citation index and reference list

W8 W8 - Revising the proposal

Oct 28 Oct 29
 Content

 Language pointers

W9  Writing Consultation (Feedback on Draft Assignments – Focus:

Nov 2-6 Language Skills)
*By appointment

Attendance Requirements
You are required to achieve 70% of attendance PLUS completion of class activities/
worksheets to list this workshop in your Co-curricular Transcript (CAT).

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