Total: 50 Hours
Objective:
Unit 1: Language Competence
A. Communicative Grammar: Nouns, articles, prepositional phrases, tenses subject verb agreement, modal verbs, difference between spoken & written language
B. Sentence structure, kinds of sentences-statements, interrogatives, question tags passive constructions, reported speech; use of conditionals, compound & complex sentences
C. Academic Reading : read to write- focus on the gist, idiom, rhetoric, style and genre specific features in different texts ; intensive & critical reading, note making
Unit 2: Organization of writing
A. Guided writing, expansion, use of connectives, sequencing, writing a paragraph free writing, mind mapping.
B. Paraphrasing, summarizing, writing an abstract
C. Writing letters, resume and email ( e-mail etiquete)
Unit 3: Academic Writing
A. Proposals, SOPs (statement of purpose)
B. Structure of a report, report writing
C. Writing an essay; (descriptive, argumentative and scientific)
Unit 4: Professional Writing
A. Inter office memos, professional reports( business, survey, minutes of a meeting)
B. Editing, writing a review, creative writing (Ad writing, slogan writing and writing headlines).
C. Technical writing; product and process writing, writing a user manual