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Advanced Writing

This document outlines the syllabus for an Advanced Writing course taught in the English Language and Literature Department at Karaj Islamic Azad University. The course is held on Mondays from 5:45-7:15pm. It will help students understand different writing contexts and genres, develop fluency and style, and learn techniques for organizing ideas with logical support and drawing inferences. Students will complete eight writing assignments and in-class exercises. The course will be evaluated based on class participation, assignments, and a final exam. Required textbooks are listed. The 16-week schedule details topics to be covered each week from chosen chapters.

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Advanced Writing

This document outlines the syllabus for an Advanced Writing course taught in the English Language and Literature Department at Karaj Islamic Azad University. The course is held on Mondays from 5:45-7:15pm. It will help students understand different writing contexts and genres, develop fluency and style, and learn techniques for organizing ideas with logical support and drawing inferences. Students will complete eight writing assignments and in-class exercises. The course will be evaluated based on class participation, assignments, and a final exam. Required textbooks are listed. The 16-week schedule details topics to be covered each week from chosen chapters.

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“In His Sublime Name”

Karaj Islamic Azad University


English Language and Literature Department
Syllabus: Advanced Writing
Semester: 2nd semester 2023
Class Time: Mondays: 17:45-19:15
Instructor: F. Esmaeili
E-mail: teacher1717@yahoo.com

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

 Understand many contexts for writing, including timed writing, and develop appropriate
strategies for the writer’s multiple purposes and audiences;
 Develop fluency and style by encouraging word and sentence variety, increasing
vocabulary, and using Edited American English;
 Recognize the relationships among sentence structures, word choice, and meaning;
 Develop ideas with logical support, including the use of informed opinion, facts, and their
interpretations;
 Write critically about ideas, including multicultural perspectives; analyze and synthesize
information; draw inferences from data; draw conclusions from arguments; and
distinguish facts from opinion;
 Use different genres in writing of academic paragraphs
 Apply the concepts of subordination/coordination, abstract/concrete words,
general/specific examples, and cohesion;

Requirements

 Students should complete eight major writing assignments, in addition to in-class


exercises, and group work.
 Each major assignment is evaluated according to a set of criteria provided to students
with the assignments sheets.

Evaluation and Grading


Class Participation: 8 points Final Exam: 12 points

Course Books
Ardaudet, Martin, L, Mary Ellen Barret. Paragraph Development. 2nd Edition. Prince Hall Regents, 1990.
Oshima, Alica, Anne Hogue. Longman Academic Writing Series 3: Paragraphs to Essays. 4th Edition. Pearson, 2014

Weekly Schedule:
Session Topic Sources
1 Introduction
Discussion of the syllabus

2 The Topic sentence Chapter 1


Paragraph Unity

3 Exercises Chapter 2
Supporting Sentences
Examples
4 Exercises Chapter 2
Details, Anecdotes, Facts and Statistics

5 Exercises Chapter 3
Enumeration

6 Exercises Chapter 3
Ascending Vs. Descending Order

7 Exercises Chapter 4
Process
Time Clues, Repetition, and Pronounce Reference

8 Exercises Chapter 4
Chronological Order

9 Midterm Exam

10 Exercises Chapter 5
Effect

11 Exercises Chapter 5
Cause
Chain Reaction

12 Exercises Chapter 6
Comparison
13 Exercises Chapter 6
Contrast
14 Exercises Chapter 7
Definition Paragraph
15 Exercises Chapter 8
From Paragraph to Composition
16 Exercises
Review

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