COURSE SYLLABUS

SUBJECT : Writing for General Purposes 2

SEMESTER : II

MEETING : 1 to 16

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide basic theory and practice on witing. The writing skills cover
the mastery of sentence patterns and building paragraphs including the basics of writing such as
punctuations, usage, diction, and organization.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, students are expected:

a) To have basic theories on writing.

b) To be able to build simple sentences, compound, complex, and compound-complex

sentences.

c) To be able apply appropriate punctuations, usage and diction in writing sentences.

d) To be able to write a good paragraph consisting of s topic sentence, supporting sentences,

and a concluding sentence.

Prerequisite: Writing for General Purposes 1

EVALUATION

Evaluation will be based on the following components:

 a. Class attendance and participation = ≤ 75%
(students with less than 75% attendance are not eligible to take the exams
b. Assignments = 20%
c. A midterm test = 30%
d. A final test = 50%

Grading:
86 – 100 =A
71 – 85 =B
56 – 70 =C
40 – 55 =D
<40 =E

COURSE OUTLINE

Meeting Material Activity

1st Course overview Lecturing
2nd Sentence pattern: Noun + Linking Verb + Lecturing
Adverbial
Sentence pattern Review Identifying sentence patterns
3rd • Expanding the Noun Phrase: Determiners Lecturing
• - Determiners Exercising the use of determiners
• - Adjective and modifiers
th
4 Expanding the Verb Phrase: Adverbials Lecturing
Summary: Position of Adverbials Exercising the use of intensifiers,
qualifiers, and adverbs of frequency.
th
5 Combining sentences by means of Lecturing
connectors: Writing compound sentences
- Coordinate and Correlative Conjunctions
- Conjunctive Adverbs
6th Combining sentences: Writing complex sentences.
- Adverbial clauses
- Adjective clauses
 - Noun clauses
th
7 Midterm Test
8th Understanding a good paragraph Lecturing
- Topic sentence Identifying a topic sentence,
- Supporting sentences supporting sentenes, and concluding
- Concluding sentence sentence in paragraphs
th
9 Controlled composition: Story Organizers Writing a composition
10th Controlled composition: Writing about Writing a composition
your food habit
th
11 Controlled composition: Choosing Writing a composition
relevant information
th
12 Controlled composition: Responding to a Writing a composition
picture
th
13 Controlled composition: Past Narration Writing a composition
14th Controlled composition: Organizing ideas Writing a composition
15th Controlled composition: Variety in Writing a composition
sentence types
th
16 Final Test