UPM-CALC/BBI2424 ACADEMIC WRITING/SEM 2/2018-19/WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
1-2 Paragraph • Recognising • Introduction to 1. Introduction to the course SCL Worksheet 1 Week 1
Development the transition Bring Brainstorm Form to
organisation of signals 2. Introduction to academic writing class in Week 2 to start
academic texts Writing Portfolio Task 1.
• Features of academic texts Writing Portfolio Task 1
• Forming thesis • Components of an
statements and academic text Week 2 Week 2
topic sentences [Lecture Notes 1] Look for excerpts from Bring the following in
reliable scholarly sources to be Week 3:
• Developing • Recognising & forming used as supporting details for the
supporting thesis statement topic and supporting points. - BRAINSTORM FORM
sentences and [Textbook : pg 79-85] - EXCERPTS
supporting [Lecture Notes 1] (for topic and excerpts
details approval)
3. Paragraph structure - OUTLINE FORM
• Writing • Writing topic sentences (DRAFT)
concluding with reference to the thesis
sentences statement
[Textbook : pg 5-10]
[Lecture Notes 1]

• Developing supporting
sentences and supporting
details
[Textbook : pg 11-14]
[Lecture Notes 1]

• Writing concluding
sentences
[Textbook : pg 14-16]
[Lecture Notes 1]

Writing Portfolio Task 1

Week 2
Students brainstorm a topic and
supporting points in class using
Brainstorm Form.
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Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
3-4 • Plagiarism • Defining • Correct 1. Plagiarism in academic writing SCL Worksheet 2
plagiarism structures for [Lecture Notes 2]
• Citation and citing and
Referencing • Using and referencing 2. Types of plagiarism
Conventions citing sources [Lecture Notes 2] Writing Portfolio Task 1
• Appropriate
reporting verbs 3. Citation and referencing Week 3
& phrases conventions: Write an outline using
• Using sources OUTLINE FORM (DRAFT) and
• Citing and referencing - the approved excerpts.
APA Style
[Lecture Notes 2]
Week 4
• Reporting verbs & phrases Students self-check OUTLINE
[Textbook : pg 52-53] FORM (DRAFT) using SELF-
[Lecture Notes 2] EDITING FORM.

Writing Portfolio Task 1

Week 3
Instructor approves the chosen
topic and excerpts.

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Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
5-6 Paraphrasing Paraphrasing • Using Writing a successful paraphrase SCL Worksheet 3 Week 6
excerpts from synonyms • Using paraphrases as Submit Writing Portfolio
academic sources supporting details Task 1
• Active & [Textbook : pg 58- 65]
passive Writing Portfolio Task 1
voice • Criteria for a good
paraphrase Week 5
• Techniques for Revise the outline using FORM T2
paraphrasing OUTLINE FORM (FINAL).
• Steps for paraphrasing
[Lecture Notes 3]

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Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
7–8 Summarising Summarising texts Using appropriate Writing a successful summary SCL Worksheet 4 Bring the completed
from academic vocabulary to • Using summaries as PARAPHRASE AND
sources summarise ideas supporting details SUMMARY FORM
[Textbook : pg 66 - 69] Writing Portfolio Task 2 (DRAFT) to class for
feedback in Week 9.
• Criteria of a good summary Week 7
• Techniques for identifying main Paraphrase and summarise the
ideas approved excerpts using
• Steps for summarising PARAPHRASE AND SUMMARY
[Lecture Notes 4] FORM (DRAFT).

Writing Portfolio Task 2 Week 8

Self-check PARAPHRASE AND
Week 8 SUMMARY FORM (DRAFT) using
Instructor provides feedback on SELF-EDITING FORM.
OUTLINE FORM (FINAL).

9 Unity and • Achieving unity • Repetition of 1. Unity SCL Worksheet 5 Complete PARAPHRASE
coherence in writing key nouns [Textbook : pg 24-26] AND SUMMARY FORM
Writing Portfolio Task 2 (FINAL) to be used for
• Maintaining • Consistent 2. Coherence Task 3 in Week 10.
coherence in pronouns • Repetition of key nouns Based on the feedback, edit and
academic texts • Consistent pronouns rewrite the paraphrases and
• Appropriate • Appropriate transition summaries using PARAPHRASE
transition signals AND SUMMARY FORM (FINAL).
signals [Textbook : pg 26-41]

Writing Portfolio Task 2

Students receive instructor

feedback on PARAPHRASE AND
SUMMARY FORM (DRAFT).

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Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
10 – 12 Reviewing & • Identifying • Independent 1. Identifying dependent and SCL Worksheet 6 Week 10
Revising dependent & dependent independent clauses 1. Bring the completed
Writing I and clauses [Textbook : pg 173-174] WRITING FORM
independent (DRAFT) together with
clauses • Coordinators 2. Constructing sentences: WRITING PORTFOLIO TASK 3 PEER EDITING FORM
• Simple sentences to class in Week 11.
• Constructing • Conjunctive [Textbook : pg 174-175] Week 10
different types adverbs Based on Task 1 (OUTLINE 2. MIDTERM TEST
of sentences: • Compound sentences FORM-FINAL) and Task 2
[Textbook : pg 175-181] (PARAPHRASE AND SUMMARY
• Subordinators
- Simple FORM-FINAL), write two complete
sentences • Complex sentences paragraphs using WRITING FORM
- Compound [Textbook : pg 182-183] (DRAFT).
sentences
- Complex • Sentence types and writing
sentences style Week 12
Based on the review of the draft,
[Textbook: pg 185-187]
edit and rewrite the paragraphs
using WRITING FORM (FINAL).

• Identifying • Subject-verb 3. Identifying and correcting

and agreement sentence errors:
correcting • Subject-Verb Agreement
different types • Coordinators [Lecture Notes 5]
of sentence
problems: • Subordinators • Parallelism
[Textbook : pg 191-194]
- Subject-Verb
Agreement
• Fragments
- Parallelism [Textbook : pg 194-196]
- Fragments
- Run-ons
• Run-ons & Comma splices
- Comma
[Textbook : pg 199-201]
splices

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Student-Centered Learning
Week Topic Learning Focus Language Focus Face-to-Face (3 hours) Student Notes
Activites
• Using correct • Tenses 4. Using tenses correctly in
grammar in academic writing
writing - Simple • Simple present tense
present • Simple past tense
tense • Present perfect tense
- Simple past [Lecture Notes 5]
tense
- Present
perfect tense
WRITING PORTFOLIO TASK 3

Week 11
Students review and revise the draft
using PEER EDITING FORM.

13-14 Reviewing & Reflecting on the • Sentence Reviewing and revising: content, SCL Worksheet 7 Week 13
Revising academic writing structure language and mechanics of writing Submit Writing Portfolio
Writing II process and the Tasks 2 & 3.
written • Sentence
paragraphs errors WRITING PORTFOLIO TASK 3

• Tenses Week 13
Students complete Writing Portfolio
Tasks 2 & 3.

EFFECTIVE: 11 FEBRUARY 2019