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FLE 402 Advanced Written Communication in English for International Students Course Information NCSU Library Online Basic Orientation (LOBO) NCSU Writing and Speaking Tutorial Services The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Overview of English Verb Tenses NC State Brand Style Guide Contact Me By Email
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Course Overview Introductions In-class diagnostic writing sample Unit 1: An Approach to Academic Writing Positioning yourself as a writer Assignment due 1/12: Investigating writing styles in your field Click here for all you need to know to do Assignment 1.
Week 2 1/12, 1/14
Error Log Mistakes found in environmental print Unit 2: Academic Communications in Support of a Career Project 1: The Bio Statement, due 1/21 Project Overview: Writing a biographical statement More about bio statements Grading rubric for bio-statement Language Focus: What you need to know before you write your bio statement
Week 3 1/21 1/19: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day No Class
Project 2: Prepare or revise your CV, due 1/28 Grading rubric for CV Purdue OWL: Writing the Curriculum Vitae NCSU CDC: Resumes and Documents Sample Resumes Instructor CV Monster.com: Top 10 Resume Mistakes Action verbs for resumes and CVs Using key words in resumes Language Focus: Gapping in CVs Parallel Structure A PowerPoint President Language Focus: Ten Golden Rules for Writers The Oatmeal
Week 4 1/26, 1/28
Project 3: Write a one-page cover letter applying for a position / fellowship / internship / submitting a journal article - draft due 2/2, final due 2/4 Grading rubric for cover letter
NCSU CDC: Cover Letters Purdue OWL: Quick formatting tips Cover letter workshop Submission Letters Bloomberg Business Week: Outdated Tactics Practice reducing informality in sentences Language Focus: Formatting papers Overview of spacing in MS Word 2013 Differences in Word versions
Week 5 2/2, 2/4
Peer Editing of Project 3 Final version of Project 3 due 2/4 Language Focus: Quotation Marks Language Focus: Constructing sentences; avoiding fragments, run-ons, and comma splices Punctuation marks Eats, Shoots & Leaves Using colons What is a comma splice? What's wrong with this sign? The Woodchuck Class version of The Woodchuck Language Focus: Email messages Hey! How to address a professor Academic email Examples of email requests Email etiquette quiz
Week 6 2/9, 2/11
Punctuation Review (class handouts) Answers to in-class exercises Can you find the mistakes? Project 4: A Conference Proposal - due 2/23 Write a Conference Proposal Grading rubric for conference proposal Purdue OWL: Writing Academic Proposals GradHacker on writing conference proposals Sample conference proposals Sample proposal for a session presentation Language Focus: Pronoun References Pronoun agreement Dr. James Bednar's writing tips More practice with this and summary phrases
Week 7 1/16, 2/18
Language Focus: Count/non-count nous and use of articles Definition of count and non-count nouns Quantity adjectives with count and non-count nouns Practice using articles Review: Using Articles Can you find the mistakes in this publication? Unit 3: Data Commentary Explaining tables, graphs and charts Student collaboration on written commentary Written commentary on a table due 3/2 Which commentary was judged the best?
Week 8 2/23, 2/25
Student collaboration on written commentary, continued Peer ranking of conference proposals 2/23 Data Commentary, continued: Oral commentary on a visual Project 5: Presenting a visual, due 3/4
View your presentation video here Week 9 3/2, 3/4
Describing charts and graphs Practice exercises More practice exercises Presention of visuals 3/4 March 9 - 13 Spring Break / No Classes
Week 10 3/16, 3/18
Unit 4: Academic Argument Project 6: Writing Academic Argument due 3/30
Grading rubric for argument paper Arguments are everywhere Logical fallacies Rhetoric: Choosing the language most effective for your purposes The Art of Rhetoric Purdue OWL vidcast: What is Rhetoric Rhetorical devices Visual rhetoric
Text as visual rhetoric Examples of rhetoric Contrastive rhetoric: English/Chinese Model argument paper ...to still the tongues Week 11 3/23, 3/25
Academic Argument, continued Paragraph structure Thesis Statements How to prepare your thesis statement Oganizing your argument
Writing effective conclusions Exemplary Introductions and Conclusions Instructor's recently published argument paper Academic Citations
Which style guide should I use? Guide for documentation in different disciplines NCSU Libraries Citation Builder Language Focus: Plagiarism Funky Winkerbean on plagiarism Plagiarism defined NC State policy on plagiarism Avoiding plagiarism when paraphrasing How to recognize plagiarism Andrea Lunsford Quotes about plagiarism 3/25: Small group discussion and feedback on individual thesis statements Week 12 3/30, 4/1
Unit 5: The Literature Review Project 7: Writing a Literature Review, due 4/15 Overview of Project 7 Grading rubric for literature review What is a Literature Review? Explanation from the UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center Video from NCSU Libraries
A Detailed Model for a Literature Review Sample review Sample review submitted by FLE 402 student Writing summaries Groups for writing summaries Results of student summaries Week 13 4/6, 4/8
4/6: Collaboration on writing summaries
Week 14 4/13, 4/15
Language Focus: Latin Words and Abbreviations in English
Language Focus: Conciseness and Word Choice Denotations and connotations Denotation and connotation exercise Euphemisms
Language Focus: Gerunds and Infinitives after Verbs Gerund or Infinitive? Exercises
Tutorial and practice exercises More practice exercises Can you control your inner pedant? Week 15 4/20, 4/22
Unit 6: Further Steps and Stops on the Dissertation Road The IMRaD model of dissertation chapters Summary of IMRaD section content and tenses
Why do chickens cross the road? Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Reflective Writing: Summary review of course and analysis of diagnostic writing sample
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