SYLLABUS

 General Description
Subject : Basic Writing
Code : PBI 221113
Credit : 2 Credit Hours
Department : English Education
Faculty : Education and Teacher Training
Lecturer : Drs. H. M. Syafii S, M.Pd.

 Course Description

This course is designed to develop students’ ability in using correct grammatical structures in building
sentences and word classes to write good basic English paragraphs in written communication.

Learning Objectives:
 To direct students have good character buildings in terms of spiritual personality and social respects,
showing understanding and comprehension of Basic writing.
 To build the kind of sentences used in writing basic paragraph: building sentences with intransitive
vebs,
 Building sentences with transitive vebs,
 Building sentences with linking vebs,
 Part of speech,
 Verb tenses,
 Active voices and,
 Passive voices.

 Assessment
The aspects of competencies assessed are based on the following components:
1. Classroom participation : 15 %
2. Assignment : 15 %
3. Mid Test : 35
4. Final Test : 35%
No Meeting Topics of Discussions Sources
1 I Introduction to the course, syllabus, learning contract, and References
discussion

2 II Building sentence with intransitive verbs

3 III Reviewing, practicing, and discussing

4 IV Building sentence with transitive verbs

5 V Reviewing, practicing, and discussing

6 VI Building sentence with linking verbs

7 VII Reviewing, practicing, and discussing

8 VIII Part of speech

9 IX Mid-Test

10 X Verb Tenses

11 XI Reviewing, practicing, and discusiing

12 XII Active voices

13 XIII Reviewing, practicing, and discussing

14 XIV Pasive Voices

15 XV Reviewing, practicing, and discussing

16 XVI Final Test

REFERENCES:
Donald, Robert B. et al. (1991). Writing Clear Paragraphs. Fourth Edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,
Inc.
Lane, Janet and Ellen Lange. (1993). Writing Clearly: An Editing Guide. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Devision of
Wadsworth, Inc.
Langan, John. (1986). College Writing Skills with Readings. Singapore: McGraw- Hill Book Co.
Oshima, Alice and Ann Hogue. (1991). Writing Academic English: A Writing and Sentence Structure Handbook. 2nd
Edition. Menlo Park, California: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Inc.
______________. (2007). Introduction to Academic Writing. Third Edition. New York: Pearson Education Inc.
Savage, Alice and Patricia Mayer. (2005). Effective Academic Writing 2: The Short Essay. New York: Oxford University
Press
Wishon, George E, and Julia M. Burks. (1980). Let’s Write English. New York: Litton Educational Publishing
International