Writing 3 EENG 3313

Course description:

This is the third course in the academic English writing specialization. This course involves a review of essay structure. Concentration in this course is placed on writing a variety of reports, emphasizing clarity, coherence, conciseness, and accuracy, with a specific audience addressed. Students will learn how to write memos, narration reports, description and definition reports, process reports, and research reports. Besides report writing, this course focuses on research and documentation skills, and critical reading. This advanced writing course of essay and report writing skills takes the students through every stage from planning and structuring through to writing and presenting. In this course, discussion essay, logical fallacies, paraphrasing and summarizing skills are highly emphasized.

Course Aims:

Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
  • To differentiate between essay and report writing.
  • To identify plagiarism and explain how to prevent it.
  • To explore the structure of a report. 
  • To understand what writing an assignment involves.
  • To understand the functions of essays and reports.
  • To develop students’ ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others, and to avoid them in one’s own arguments.
  • To demonstrate writing skills involved in these two genres of writing. 

Course outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes:
  • Differentiate between argumentative and discussion essay. 
  • Plan and write a more sophisticated argument and discussion essays.
  • Write memos, narration reports, description and definition reports, process reports, and research reports.
  • Write a bibliography or works cited page to avoid plagiarism. 
  • Read and analyze several articles to form own opinion on a topic.
  • Make connections between several articles.
  • Use sources effectively when writing an essay, a reading response, or a report.