Writing III

4th class (September 21, 2014)

Arif Nuryawan arifnury@yahoo.com
Universitas Terbuka
Korea Selatan
Course Introduction
Text book : Writing 3, Rahmat Budiman, Universitas Terbuka 2011
Tutorial module consists of 9 parts but will be cover in 8 classes.
Class 1 : Descriptive Paragraph
Class 2 : Personal Letters
Class 3 : Business Letters
Class 4 : Basic Essays
Class 5 : Narrative 1
Class 6 : Narrative 2 & Comparative
Class 7 : Cause and Effect
Class 8 : Argumentative
Tutorial method: Online (Justin TV or Ustream) and In class
Grading Components
Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3
Participation
Final Exam
Course material can be found at Portal UT Korea

Module 4 Basic Essay
Essay is a group of paragraphs about one subject
An essay is like a paragraph in extended, fuller form.
As the paragraph has a topic sentence, body and conclusion, the essay also has an
introduction, body, and conclusion
Introduction thesis statement
Body longest part
Conclusion the end of the essay
Objective 1) develop topics 2) write open composition 3)write closed composition
Unit 1 Developing Topics
WRITING: Developing Topics
Step 1 write down everything
Step 2 Write some more
Step 3 Narrow your topic
Step 4 Join/ collect the similar ideas together
Step 5 Write a rough draft
GRAMMAR : Parallelism
Single word
- Korean, Chinese, and Japanese are similar character.(noun)
- He listens, reads, and writes. (verb)
- She is beautiful, rich, and arrogant. (adjectives)
Phrases
- I spent this weekend teaching English, walking around, and watching TV.
- etc
Language in Use : Consistent Tense
It means using the same verb tense whenever possible throughout a sentence
or a whole paragraph
Do not shift from one verb tense to another
Unit 2 Open Compositions
WRITING: Writing Open Composition
The steps:
1. Define your purpose
2. Brainstorms subject of interest
3. Evaluate each potential topic
4. Organize your ideas
5. Draw a diagram or an outline

GRAMMAR : Pronouns
A. Indefinite Pronouns
Ex. Anybody, no one, some one, etc
B. Special Singular Antecedents
Ex. Each of, one (of), either (of), etc
C. Collective nouns
Ex. Family, jury, team, etc
Unit 3 Closed Compositions
WRITING: Writing Closed Compositions
Strategies:
1. Understand the question
2. Organize your idea
3. Be sure you write adequate information
4. Use vocabulary that you familiar with
5. Restate the queation or the statement with your own words.
6. Spend three or five minutes at the end for reading your essay

GRAMMAR : Transitional expressions
To add also, and, and then, etc
To compare similarly, likewise, as well as, etc
To contrast even though, although, however, etc
To concede (a point) certainly, of course, to be sure, etc
To emphasize in fact, in particular, indeed, etc
To illustrate as an illustration, for instance, for example, etc
To place above, beside, further, etc
To qualify perhaps, may be, might be, etc
To give a reason as, because, for, etc
To show a result and so, because of this, as a result, etc
To summarize to sum up, in other words, all in all, etc
To place in time afterwards, subsequently, meanwhile, etc

Thank you