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Course Description
The course is a continuation to Expository and Analytical Writing. In this course, the aim is to further improve students‘ ability in argumentative writing, a skill that can help students‘ personal, academic, and professional life. The purpose of argumentative writing in this course is to convince the audience in a reasonable manner by employing critical thinking skills to form logical, effective and believable written arguments. Emphasis is placed on the process of writing with development of content, organization, and paragraph to essay structure. The teaching – learning activities are conducted through brief presentations by the teacher, discussions that involve both students and teachers, and practices by the students in the form of essay writing workshops. Integrated into these activities are the in-class assignments, analytical reading sessions and peer review activities in addition to extended essays developed outside of class.
Program Objectives (PO)
- 1. Students are able to internalize values, norms, and ethics which encompass academic integrity, respect towards diversity and originality in ideas into individual and collaborated works and performance of the course.
- Students are able to practice logical, systematic and critical thinking skills in addition to being innovative to write argumentative essays that meet the intended functions, criteria of unity and coherence in their individual work.
- Students are able to write properly structured and organized sentences, paragraphs, and essays which demonstrates CEFR’s B2 level of English writing proficiency following the language concepts required to write argumentative essays that communicate awareness of academic – related issues.
- Students are able to produce argumentative essays that communicate the intended purposes by incorporating the process of writing, the use of supporting ICT and principles of unity and coherence in effective, creative and learner – centred learning activities.
Aktifitas Pembelajaran
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Pertemuan 1 Students are able to identify sentences that are the result of plagiarism -
Pertemuan 2 Students are able to identify correct in-text citations and reference lists according to APA 7th edition reference system -
Pertemuan 3 Students are able to identify the structure of argumentative essays and the parts of arguments presented in them -
Pertemuan 4 Students are able to identify the parts of an argumentative essay's outline -
Pertemuan 5 Students are able to compose an introductory paragraph for an argumentative essay based on the outline -
Pertemuan 6 Students are able to compose body paragraphs based on controlling ideas on the thesis statement and the outline -
Pertemuan 7 Students are able to compose the refutation paragraph of an argumentative essay based on the outline -
Pertemuan 8 Students are able to compose the concluding paragraph based on the outline -
Pertemuan 9 Students are able to identify the language features and cohesive devices used in establishing unity, cohesion and coherence in written argumentative essays -
Pertemuan 10 Students are able to select proper evidence to support the topic sentence of an argumentative essay's body paragraph based on their strength and types -
Pertemuan 11 Students are able to compose a proper thesis statement for an argumentative essay based on the selected topic -
Pertemuan 12 Students are able to compose the introductory paragraph based on the outline written previously -
Pertemuan 13 Students are able to write the body paragraphs for an argumentative essay based on the outline written previously -
Pertemuan 14 Students are able to compose the refutation paragraphs based on the outline written previously -
Pertemuan 15 Students are able to compose the concluding paragraph based on the outline written previously -
Pertemuan 16 Students are able to Identify the language features and cohesive devices used in establishing unity, cohesion and coherence in written argumentative essays
References
- Bailey, S. (2015). Academic Writing A Handbook for International Students (Fourth Edi). Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
- APA. (2020). APA Referencing ( 7th ed .): A brief guide. Eastern Institute of Technology.
- Kirszner, L. G., & Mandell, S. R. (2015). Patterns for College Writing - a Rhetorical Reader and Guide (Brief Edit). Bedford/St. Martin’s.
- Oshima, A., & Hogue, A. (2007). Introduction to Academic Writing Level 3 (3rd ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.
- Wallwork, A. (2013). English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises. Springer Science + Business Media
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