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Course Outline

WEEK TOPICS ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT FOR THE NEXT MEETING REF

1  Introduction  Listening  Preparing for in class writing activity -
General evaluation of student's essay
 Complete and type the essay draft
writing skill
 Finding three appropriate references for essay draft
Academic Writing vs Popular/Personal Gillet (February, 2015)
Writings  Writing a short  Summarizing the references and quotes in form of
Birmingham City University.
2  Nature essay (800-1000 annotated bibliography
(May, 2011)
 Characteristics word)  Email to the lecturer, printout, and bring to the class
 Style the annotated bibliography and the draft of the
writing
 Process
 What is plagiarism? Lipson (2006), pp.3-4
 How to avoid plagiarism: Citing  Listening  Redrafting the essay by incorporating the quotes University of Melbourne
correctly  Incorporating the  Choosing a citation style (2011)
3  Referencing: Choosing A Citation quotes and  Completing the draft's citation Indiana University (2014)
Style (APA / American Psychological references into the  Email to the lecturer, printout, and bring to the class UNSW (2015)
Association) or (MLA / Modern essay draft the complete essay draft APA (2010)
Language Association) MLA (2009)
 Finalizing the draft
 Listening
 Printout and/or email the draft to two (2) group
 Quoting  Checking the quality
members & the lecturer
4  Paraphrasing of referencing TBA
 Summarizing  Paraphrasing direct
 Group members email the reviewed papers to the
lecturer, printout the reviewed papers, and bring
quotes
them to class for discussion
 Finalizing, email to the lecturer, printout, and bring to
 Peer-editing: Improving you essay
class the short academic essay (800 - 1000 words)
quality  Peer editing
5  Self-editing: Finalizing your essay activities  Finding, copying, bring to the class the theoretical TBA
chapter and the list of bibliographies of two (2)
 Consultation
theses of English Department students on the same
(A short essay submitted)
topic on either Linguistics or Literary Studies
6  Understanding a review paper  Listening  Finalizing the list of those errors in a table containing Lipson 2006, pp.5-10
 Drafting a critical review paper  Identifying, the types of error, the page number where the error

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occur, and the sentences in which those errors

occurs
 Finding the correct grammatical formulas for those
categorizing, and errors from three (3) grammar books
listing the
 Making a grammatical review paper  Writing those formulas in annotated bibliographic
grammatical errors
forms for
on the two thesis
 Email to lecturer, printout, and bring to class the list
of errors and the annotated bibliography of the
correct grammatical formula
 Checking signs of
 Writing the first draft of the critical review paper
plagiarism in the two
(1000-1500 words)
Making critiques: theses
 Peer-editing the first draft of the paper with two
 Checking signs of plagiarism  Checking citation
7 members of the group UNSW (2015)
 Checking the application of a citation style application in
the two theses  Group members email the reviewed papers to the
style in the theses
lecturer, printout the reviewed papers, and bring
 Outlining the review
them to class for discussion
paper
 Peer editing /
proofreading
8 Proofreading and final editing  Finalizing the draft of the critical review paper -
 Making the 1st peer
assessment
9
Mid Term Test
N/A
 Email the final version & submit the hard copy of Connelly (2013)
(A Critical Review Paper submitted) the paper to the lecturer Turley (2000)
 Find a topic for the future academic essay Murray (2012)
 Brainstorming & outlining
Steps in conducting Academic Writing:  Sorting and listing the potential sources of reference
10 1. Brainstorming and Planning Group Discussion in form of annotated bibliography
2. Outlining  Email to the lecturer, printout, and bring to class the
outline and the annotated bibliography of potential
sources of reference
11 3. Drafting  Writing the first draft  Finalizing the first draft
of the essay  Sending the draft to two members of the new group
to review the content and references of the draft
 Group members email the reviewed papers to the

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lecturer, printout the reviewed papers, and bring

them to class for discussion
 Revising the first draft of the essay
Discussing the first
12
4. Proofreading or Peer-Reviewing 1
draft of the essay with  Sending the 2nd draft to the other two (2) members of
(content issue) the group to review the grammatical and referencing
the proofreaders
problem of the essay
 Revising the 2nd draft of the essay
 Sending the 3rd draft to one member of the class (not
Discussing the second
4. Proofreading or Peer-Reviewing 2 their group member)
13 draft of the essay with
(language & referencing issues)
the proofreaders  The class members email the reviewed papers to
the lecturer, printout the reviewed papers, and bring
them to class for discussion
Discussing the third  Revising the 3rd draft of the essay
14 Finalizing draft of the essay with
the proofreaders  Sending the 4th draft (final) to the lecturer
 Discussing the third
draft of the essay
 Finalizing the 4th draft
with the lecturer
15 Evaluation  Email to the lecturer, printout, and submit the final
 Making the 2nd Peer
version of the essay
Assessment
 Evaluating the class
End of Term Test
16  N/A Checking out overall grades for this class -
(An Academic Essay)

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