Lincoln Learning Centers Online English Language Program Syllabus July, 2020

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Course Title:

Duration: 4 week(s) Location: Google drive

Start Date: 7 July 2020 End Date: 7 August
Teacher: Yalda Azim Course Level: Intermediate

About This Course

Academic writing course is designed for students of Intermediate. The course aims to
improve student’s academic writing skills. They will learn to write grammatically correct
sentences, combine, and use them in paragraphs. Secondly, they will learn about paragraphs
and organizing paragraphs. On the third stage, they will learn about essays and types of it. By
the end of the course, students will be able to write correct sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
The ultimate goal is to enable students to writing a good argumentative essays and succeed in
exams like TOEFL and IELTS.

By the end of this course, you will be able to,

 To enable students to use various sentence structures in their writing.

 To enable students to write well-structured paragraphs.
 To enable students to write well-organized academic essays.

Couse books:

Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3: Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US:
Pearson Education.
Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3: Essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson
Education.

Supplementary materials:

https://www.engvid.com/topic/writing/

Hogue, A. (2007). First steps in academic writing (2nd ed.). London: Pearson Education.
Folse, K. S., Mahnke, M. K., Solomon, E. V., & Williams, L. (2002). Blueprints 2:
Composition skills for academic writing. US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Choy, P., & Clark, D.G. (2006). Basic grammar and usage (7 th ed.). USA, Boston:
Wadsworth.

Course Grading
Students’ performance will be assessed based on:
 Participation 10%
 Assignments 40%
 Final project 20%
 Final Exam 30%
 Total 100%

Course implementation plan:

The course will be implemented in the google classroom. The course will be
conducted by having an online registration conducted by the LLC. Once the list of interested
and eligible candidates is finalized, they will be sent an email through which they will be
invited to attend the class. The teacher in this course will post classwork, assignments,
quizzes and supplementary materials.
There will a lesson every day based on the schedule that follows. The students will be
provided with an engaging activity at the beginning of every session, and they will discuss
their answers in the discussion section afterwards. Then they will be provided with a sample
paragraph or essay as a start to familiarize them with the type of the paragraph or essay they
are going to learn about. After the sample, there will be some follow-up questions that the
students will discuss on another discussion tab. Moreover, the teacher will have them watch
the video and read the assigned pages. Then they will work on the activities which will be
posted along with the main assignment. Furthermore, the teacher will give assignments every
session, check them and return them if necessary. There will be a quiz after each module to
check the students’ understanding of the content discussed. The class will be taught by Zoom
App.

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Course Content

Week 1 [Module 1]
Estimated hours to complete: 6 hr(s)

Module title: Introduction to academic writing

Module Objectives:

1. To educate students on what academic writing is and what its difference

is with other types of writing, and importance of academic writing
2. To discuss the layout of a paragraph.
3. To familiarize students with the basics of academic writing.
4. Objective: To enable students to write a well-structured paragraph with a
clear topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence.
5. To introduce the types of sentences based on structure and the importance
of variation is sentence structure in academic writing.
6. To enable students to write well-written simple and compound sentences.

Module Materials & Assessment Summary: #of Videos, #of Readings, #of
quizzes

Day 1. Introduction of teacher, Students, Syllabus, Rules for the class, etc.
Day 2: To answer the questions:
1. What is Academic writing?
2. What are some types of academic writing?
3. What are some principles of academic writing?
Day 3: What is a paragraph, a general idea., and the page format of a
handwritten and computerized paragraph.
Day 4: To introduce parts of a paragraph: Topic sentence, position of topic
sentence, its characteristics, and how to develop one.
Day 5: To discuss supporting sentences, and concluding sentence.
Day 6: To discuss Simple and compound sentences

1 videos

 Video 1: https://www.engvid.com/introduction-to-english-academic-writing-parts-
of-a-paragraph/

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Readings [List of reading materials or reference to course book, etc.]

 Day 1: Introduction of teacher, Students, Syllabus, Rules for the class, etc
 Day 2:
1. Reading 1 Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:
Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pages 3-4
2. https://www.calltutors.com/blog/what-is-academic-writing/
 Day 3:
1. Reading 1 Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:
Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (5-9).
 Day 4:
1. Reading 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series
3: Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Page 54-55
 Day 5:
1. Reading 2: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series
3: Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (61, 62,
64)
 Day 6:
1. Reading 3: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series
3: Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (14, 40,
41)

4 Practice Exercises [List of links to quizzes or practice exercises resource]

 Practice exercise 1: Students will write a paragraph introducing

themselves.
 Practice exercise 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing
series 3: Paragraph to essay (45h ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp (55-59)
 Practice exercise 2: Pp. (61-63, 65)
 Practice exercise 3: P. (15)
 Practice exercise 4: pp. (42-43)
 A quiz on the content of the module.

Week 2 [Module 2]
Estimated hours to complete: 6 hr(s)

Module title: Types of paragraph

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Module Objectives:

7. To familiarize students with the concept of logical division of ideas, unity

and coherence.
8. To enable students to write process, cause / effect, and comparison /
contrast paragraphs.

Module Materials & Assessment Summary: #of Videos, #of Readings, #of
quizzes

Daily schedule:
Day 1: To introduce logical division of ideas,
Day 2: To talk about unity and coherence.
Day 3: To talk about the organization of a process essay, how to develop its
topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence, and the transition
signals that go with this type of paragraph.
Day 4: To talk about the organization of cause / effect paragraphs, how to
develop its topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence, and
the transition signals that go with this type of paragraph.
Day 5: To talk about comparison / contrast paragraphs, how to develop its topic
sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence, and the transition
signals that go with this type of paragraph.
Day 6: Quiz and Students’ presentation

4 videos [List of the videos in an embedded link]

 Video 1 on logical division of ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=95lX8lm03pI
 Video 2 on process paragraphs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32R30EYIW-U /
https://www.engvid.com/ielts-writing-task-1-how-to-describe-a-process/
 Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZetJ03Ci_Y
 Video 4 on comparison contrast: https://www.engvid.com/ielts-writing-effective-
paragraphs/

Readings [List the reading materials or reference to course book, etc.]

 Reading day 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:

Paragraph to essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (82-83)
 Reading day 2: Pp. (85-91)
 Reading day 3: pp. (105-106)
 Reading day 4: pp. (151-152, 161)
 Reading day 5: pp. (174-176, 183)
 Reading day 6: pp. (112-117)

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3 Practice Exercises [List the link to quizzes or practice exercises resource]

 Practice exercise 1: pp. 83-84

 Practice exercise 2: p. 110, p. 160, p. 182
 Practice exercise 3: pp. 113-117

Week 3 [Module 3]
Estimated hours to complete: 6 hr(s)

Module title: How to write an essay

Module Objectives:

9. Objective 1: To enable students to write a well-structured essay.

10.Objective 2: To introduce them with the idea of unity and coherence in
essay.
11.Objective 3: To familiarize them with the format and layout of an essay.

Module Materials & Assessment Summary: #of Videos, #of Readings, #of
quizzes

Day 1: To introduce the essay structure, and thesis statement.

Day 2: To explain the introductory paragraph, and the types of hooks.
Day 3: To explain body paragraphs, unity and coherence in the body
paragraphs.
Day 4: To explain Concluding paragraphs.
Day 5: A short explanation on the patterns of organizations, and logical division
of ideas.
Day 6: Quiz and Students presentation

2 videos [List of the videos in an embedded link]

 Video 1 on essay: https://www.engvid.com/how-to-write-an-effective-essay/

 Video 2 on the introduction: https://www.engvid.com/effective-essay-
introduction/

Readings [List the reading materials or reference to course book, etc.]

 Reading day 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:

Essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (78-79, 83)
 Reading day 2: Pp. (80-81)
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 Reading day 3: Pp. 86

 Reading day 4: Pp. 87
 Reading day 5: https://espressoenglish.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/logical-
division-of-ideas-paragraph/ and Pp. 89-91

5 Practice Exercises [List the link to quizzes or practice exercises resource]

 Practice exercise 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing

series 4: Essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (79-81)
 Practice exercise 2: Pp. (81-82)
 Practice exercise 3: P. (86)
 Practice exercise 4: Pp. (88-89)
 Practice exercise 5: Pp. (90, 92)

Week 4 [Module 4]
Estimated hours to complete: 6 hr(s)

Module title: Basics of paragraph and types of sentence based on structure.

Module Objectives:

1. Objective 4: To enable them to write an argumentative essay.

2. Objective 5: To familiarize them with some formal and informal
vocabularies.

Module Materials & Assessment Summary: #of Videos, #of Readings, #of
quizzes.

Daily schedule:

Day 1: An introduction to argumentative essay and the introductory paragraph.

Day 2: How to build an argument.
Day 3: The patterns of organization in an argumentative essay.
Day 4: Peer review and discussion of the rubric for the final project.
Day 5: To explain complex sentences, discuss feedbacks, returning the final
projects (if necessary), scoring it, and giving the final exam.
Day 6: Students’ presentation and quiz

3 videos [List the videos in an embedded link]

Video 1 on how to write an argumentative essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=oAUKxr946SI

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Video 2 on how to build an argument: https://www.engvid.com/ielts-writing-task-2-how-to-

structure-an-argument/
Video 3 on complex sentence structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=A7XD_sYbjAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbQ9zB11fA

Readings [List the reading materials or reference to course book, etc.]

 Reading day 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:

Essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (153, 156, 158)
 Reading day 2:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/106/academic_writing/8 and Pp.
160-163
 Reading day 3: P. 156
 Reading day 4: The rubric and peer review Will be provided in a PPT by
teacher.
 Reading day 5: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing series 3:
Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp. (112-113),

5 Practice Exercises [List the link to quizzes or practice exercises resource]

 Practice exercise 1: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing

series 3: Essay (5th ed.). US: Pearson Education Pp. (153-155, 159-160)
 Practice exercise 2: Students will be given topics and asked to provide
arguments on them.
 Practice exercise 3: Pp. 157
 Practice exercise 4: Teacher provides the rubric and an explanation of
each part then asks students review each other’s work provide feedback
on them.
 Practice exercise 5: Oshima, A. (2014). Longman Academic writing
series 3: Paragraph to essay (4th ed.). US: Pearson Education. Pp.
(114-115)