WRITING III 2 CREDITS SEMESTER IV

1. WRITING III2 CREDITSSEMESTER IV BY DEDI TURMUDI, M.A TESOL DEDY SUBANDOWO, M.A

2. COURSE DESCRIPTION • This course trains students to express themselves by means of three types of unified and coherent paragraphs,descriptive, narrative, and expository paragraphs. They learn the principles of paragraph writing throughmodeling, inquiry, and discovery and practice writing paragraphs as class and home assignments. The students’achievement is assessed by means of their class attendance, activity, portfolio, mid-semester test, and semesterexams.

3. Objectives • Students can distinguish and writenarrative, descriptive, and expository paragraphs with adequate unity,coherence, and cohesion.

4. COURSE OUTLINE WRITING 3 (3 TYPES) • Modeling(Characteristics of paragraph types: narration, descriptionandexpositionIdentifying paragraph types). • Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequate unity, & coherence: (peer conference). • Writing a descriptive paragraphIdentifying paragraphs with adequate and inadequatecohesion. • Writing a descriptive paragraph, Identifying coherence, unity, and cohesion. • Identifying paragraphs with and without topic sentences, Writing a narrative paragraph without a topic sentence, Revising students’ work

5. Writing a guided narrative paragraph using a topic sentencegiven, Revising students’ work. • Writing a guided descriptive paragraph using a topicsentence provided, Revising students’ work. • Writing a descriptive paragraph using a topic sentenceprovided, Revising students’ work. • Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentence, given, Revising students’ work. • Writing an expository paragraph using a topic sentencegivenRevising students’ work.

6. COMPOSITION

7. TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS • COURSE OUTLINE • GROUP PRESENTATION • INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION • MID (OPTIONAL) • FINAL

8. ONLINE COURSE • This study is designed to give new space for the students to explore more about their ideas in writing paragraphs. • The student must create a blog where the works can be written and seen online and analysed by peer conference. • The course sometimes will not do in the class.

9. References • Arnaudet, Martin L. and Barret, Mary Ellen. 1990. Paragraph Development. Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. • Jupp, TC and Milne, John. ____. Guided Paragraph Writing. London: Heinemann Educational Books. • Blanchard, Karen and Root, Christine. 2003. Ready to Write. New York: Longman