Syllabus | EN 1206: Professional Writing II

Linking ideas: clauses and phrases (05/03 hrs)

  • Activities: Provide sentences with linking words such as: because, so, but, although, in spite of, otherwise, except that, apart from. Get them to underline the linking words. Discuss the function of linking words

  • Provide more activities.

- Join the ideas in the two columns using linking words.
- Fill in the blanks.

Develop paragraphs: organizing ideas at inter-paragraph level (05/02 hrs)

  • Generate ideas using different techniques: brain storming, group/class discussions, reading, illustrations
  • Guidelines on organization: beginning, developmental Pattern-content (two or three paragraphs), ending, register, key words
  • Writing drafts, conference with the teacher, revising

Informative writing (10/05 hrs)

  • Text types: prospectuses, description of places/people
  •  Focus: conveying information clearly. Consider what the reader wants to know and include relevant details only.
  •  Present materials clearly, appropriate layout, illustrations and organization

Practical writing (10/05 hrs)

  • Text types: CV writing, job applications and covering letters
  •  Focus on particulars found in an application form, CV format is different from application form

Letter writing- business letters (10/05 hrs)

  •  Text Types: letters of complaints, letters of orders, banking correspondence
  •  Focus: use formal and impersonal language

Imaginative writing (10/05 hrs)

  •  Text types: poetry, short stories, play lets
  • Short stories

- Creative use of language. Provide questions/pictures to stimulate writing.
- Provide the beginning; An old man sat on a bench in the park watching children
playing…
- Provide the ending: …I told you it was a joke
- Supply captions or titles as starting points. These can be taken from newspapers. e.g. Boy
saved from drowning.
- Imaginary situations: If I were a parent…

  •  Poetry
  •  Playlets

- Text types: write dialogues appropriate to specific situations on different themes and act them out
(group tasks)
- Write and act out scripts for well-known tales, e.g. folk stories

Persuasive and argumentative writing (10/05 hrs)

  • Writing skills: giving reasons: e.g. why do people gamble/become vegetarians/keep pets/enjoy watching violet films? (Ref: Language in Use: Upper-Intermediate. Classroom Book.Page40, 50)

  • Text types

- Brochures, leaflets, advertisements- on presenting a case influencing the reader. 
E.g. Imagine a local radio station has asked you to write a one-minute commercial advertising a new product
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