English II : Syllabus for BBA

ENG 102.3 (Credit hours 3)

English II

BBA, First Year, Second Semester

Course Objectives:

This course aims to develop writing skills in the students. If functions as a mini-rhetoric offering extensive advice on planning, writing and revising, including brainstorming, clustering, journal writing, and editing, The course introduces students to the various modes of writing and with enough examples it teaches how to distinguish between the various modes and comprehend an essay's Content, understand the writer's purpose and audience, recognize the stylistic and structural techniques used to shape the essay, and their sensitivity to the nuances of word choice and figurative language, In addition, there are ample "Writing Assignments" and "Collaborative Writing Activity" for the students to apply what they have learnt.

Course Contents:

Module I                                                                                                                 16 hours

1.     Introduction

Reading to Write

2.     The Writing Process

Invention, Arrangement, Drafting and Revision

3.     Narration

Sandra Sisneros, Only Daughter; Donna Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked

4.     Description

Mark Twain, Reading the River; N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

 

Module II                                                                                                                    16 hours

5.     Exemplification

Robert M. Linlinfeld and William L. Rahje, Six Enviro-Myths

Richard Leaderer, English is a Crazy Language

6.     Process

Alexander Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp; Larry Brown, On Fire

7.     Cause and Effect

Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret?

Marie Winn, Television: The Plug-In Drug

8.     Comparison and Contrast

Bruce Catton, grant and Lee" A Study in Contrast

Deborah Tannen. Sex, Lies, and Conversation

9.     Classification and Division

Allen Pace Nilsen, Sexism in English: A 1990s Update

Stephanie Ericsson, The Way We Lie

Module III                                                                                                                                 16 hours

10.  Definition

Judy Brady: I Want a Wife

Burno Bettelheim. The Holocaust

11.  Argumentation

Structuring an Argumentative Essay

Tomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

Debate Casebook: Multicultural Education

12.  Combining the patterns

Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving

13.  Using and Documenting Sources

Paraphourasing, Summarizing, and Using Quotations, Avoiding Plagiarism, Using APA Style to Cite and Document Sources