COMMUNICATION
FOR INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT I
ENGLISH
155—SPRING 2005
Section
3
Colin
S. Cavell, Ph.D. Course
Room No.: S17-113
Class
SMW:
Office
Hours: By appointment Office
No.: S17-263
VOICE: 17438775 (W) 17729091
(H)
This skills-based course
introduces students to the written conventions and techniques common to
technology-related business communication.
This incorporates the writing process:
planning, researching by internet, writing, and revising.
Course Aims: This course
aims to introduce students to internet correspondence and research and to the
chief rhetorical modes of writing required for short technical essays and
reports.
Course Objectives: By the
end of the course, students should be able to:
·
Demonstrate their knowledge of appropriate email
messages;
·
Recognize several types of paragraphs and their
organization;
·
Demonstrate basic knowledge of summary,
paraphrasing, reported speech, citing and quoting;
·
Recognize the basic requirements of reports;
·
Understand how to use the internet for basic
research;
·
Demonstrate knowledge of descriptive, process and
opinion writing.
Grading
Policy: 25% for Test 1; 25% for Test 2; and 50% for
the Final Exam. A course grade sheet for Section 3 is
available at:
<http://userspages.uob.edu.bh/cscpo/english155/>.
Attendance
Policy*: Attendance in class is mandatory. It is the student’s responsibility to sign
the attendance sheet each day of class; failure to sign the attendance
sheet—even if in attendance—will be counted as an absence. If your unexcused absences exceed 25% of the
total number of lectures of the course in this semester, you will be automatically
withdrawn from the course and be given a grade of (WF) which will be counted
towards your GPA. As well, you are
expected to follow the syllabus and accordingly be prepared for each day's
class. This means that you must read the
pre-assigned readings before class so that you will be prepared to discuss and
debate in class the subject matter scheduled for that day and answer questions
related to the issues being covered. NOTE: TURN OFF all cell phones during class.
* Absence from class may be made up by preparing a two-page, typed (i.e. using maximum 12 point font size and maximum
double-spaced text with one-inch margin on all sides), summary on the missed material scheduled to be covered the
day(s) of your absence. The summary must
be in your own words and must not be copied material from the text(s), the
internet, or any other source(s). Times
New Roman font is strongly recommended; however, if you use an alternative
style, make sure your font does not resemble italic or bold text. Also, Comic Sans
MS font is not allowed.
Required Text:
Printed materials will be available at the
University Print Shop.
First
Class Assignment:
Send me a formal email message introducing yourself. Send it to
ccavell@gmail.com. Make sure to include
your name, id number, class number, and section number in your Subject Heading.
Week I, Feb. 26-Mar. 2: Effective Email Correspondence
Subject Matter:
Format, vocabulary, tone (formal/informal), abbreviations
Week 2, Mar. 5-9: Paragraphing
Subject Matter:
Main idea, evidence/examples, page format, block style, margins, spacing
Mar. 9: [Last
day for dropping courses]
Mar. 12—Apr. 27: [End of withdrawal period with a “W”]
Week 3, Mar. 12-16: Sentences
Subject Matter:
Editing, connectors, sentence types, punctuation
Week 4, Mar. 19-23: Descriptive Paragraphs
Subject Matter:
Review articles, adjectives, adjective clauses, appearance, location,
size, functions, composition
Week 5, Mar. 26-30: How-to/Process Writing
Subject Matter:
Organization, steps, transition
Week 6, Apr. 2-6: Passive, past tense
Week 7, Apr. 9-13: TEST I—April 12,
Week 8, Apr. 16-20: Mid-semester break [No classes]
Apr.
21: Prophet's birthday—Holiday [No classes]
Week 9, Apr. 23-27: Cause and Effect
Week 10, Apr. 30-May 4: Compare and Contrast,
similarities/differences, comparatives and superlatives
Week 11, May 7-11: Opinion/Evaluation Essay, paraphrasing
Week 13, May 14-18: Research—Library, online, magazines, review
citation, quotation
Week 11, May 21-25: TEST II—May 22,
Week 14, May 28-June 1: Report Format/Organization
Subject Matter:
Title Page, Contents, Headings, Bullets, Resources (Bibliography),
Appendix
Week 15, June 6: Last day of classes; Review for Final—June 15
June 15: Final Exam