Syllabus (docx):
Identifying the appropriateness of style (formal versus informal)
The writing process: planning (generating ideas: listing, brainstorming, free writing, mapping)
Identifying audience and purpose; ordering ideas; the first draft
Rewriting: revising the first draft, editing the first draft, proofreading the final copy
Building up a paragraph: the topic sentence, the supporting sentences (details, examples, explanation), the concluding sentence
The use of linking words / phrases for personal opinion, purpose, concession, cause, effect, contrast, comparison, conclusion, addition and listing
Building up a sentence: the use of relative pronouns (who, which, whose, whom, that); word order in a sentence
Punctuation (the use of full stops, commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes, hyphens, inverted commas)
Paragraph writing: description (person, place, event), process, opinion, for and against, cause and effect analysis, comparison/contrast, problem/solution
Academic style. Academic writing (OWL).
Academic phrases (pdf). "Why study?" Exercise 1: an opinion essay.
Register and style (pdf). Exercise 2: a letter.
Paragraphs (pdf). The controlling idea. The topic sentence. Paragraphing (OWL).