| Course title | |||||
| 家畜飼養学 [Animal Nutrition] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | 2～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01el2004b | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 川合 伸也, 小松 健, 多田 多恵子 [KAWAI Shinya, KOMATSU Ken, TADA Taeko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Building on the writing skills and knowledge learned in the Paragraph Writing course, this class aims to advance students’ writing skills by developing paragraphs into cohesive and coherent essays. Students will learn how to shape their arguments into essays through the process of outlining ideas, creating essay drafts, and revising the texts into stronger arguments. The classes are formed according to the degree of students’ English proficiency and advancement. This course is offered as an intermediate writing course in the English curriculum of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. |
| Expected Learning |
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1) Students should aquire skills for composing a variety of essays such as informative, argumentative, and comparative essays. 2) Students should understand parts of an essay and learn to make the introduction to attract readers’ interest, the body to develop specific ideas, and the conclusion to wrap up the entire argument. Thus, they should be able to convey their ideas as cohesive essays. 3) Students should understand how to quote, paraphrase, and summarize the information from books, journals, or newspapers in order to support their essay argument and avoid plagiarism. They should be able to make a reference list for their essays according to referencing styles. 4) Students should aquire skills for coherently developing their arguments with logical consistency through the process to repeatedly revising and editing their essay drafts. [Competency Development] Intercultural Understanding, Global Awareness, Communication Skills, Reading Comprehension Skills, Effective Writing Skills |
| Course schedule |
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1. Paragraph Structure 2. Unity and Coherence 3. Using Outside Sources 4. From Paragraph to Essay 5. Process Essays 6. Cause / Effect Essays 7. Comparison / Contrast Essays 8. Argumentative Essays 9. Types of sentences 10. Parallelism and Sentence Problems 11. Noun Clauses 12. Adverb Clauses 13. Adjective Clauses 14. Participles and Participial Phrases 15. Course Review & Feedback |
| Prerequisites |
| This course carries 1 credit. In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, they are recommended to prepare for, and review, the classes using the textbook and the reference books, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class. Students must attend at least 2/3 of a course in order to receive credit for that course. If students do not fully attend the class for two times, it should be counted as one time of absence. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Oshima, Alice, and Ann Hogue. 2020. The Longman Academic Writing Series. 4: Essays / Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue with Lara Ravitch. Fifth edition. Hoboken, NJ: Pearson. |
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| Assessment/Grading |
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Class participation (20%): Participation to class discussion and group work are evaluated. Tasks given in class (80%): Students are assessed on whether they understood the lecture contents, and whether they can develop paragraphs and compose various kinds of essays with logical consistency in English via various assignments: quizzes/tests, homework, term papers, and a final examination. |
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| Office hours |
| Office hours are to be announced in class. |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| English |
| Last update |
| 3/31/2023 5:54:30 PM |