Writing class details

1. What you should know?
1. General rules of writing an academic essay
2. What is a paragraph?
3. What is an essay?
4. Kinds of essays

2. What will you learn?
1. Advanced ways of constructing an essay
2. Advanced tools and techniques for
constructing an essay
3. Better understanding of writing
4. Help in constructing your thesis

3. Reading + Thinking = Writing

4. Reading
Reading is primary.
One can write only as well as one reads.
To write better, you must learn to read better.

5. Critical reading
a) What does it mean to read critically
b) What does a text
a) Say
b) Mean
c) Do
c) Critical reading strategies
d) Read everything

6. Critical thinking
1) Understand the links between ideas.
2) Determine the importance and relevance of
arguments and ideas.
3) Recognize, build and appraise arguments.
4) Identify inconsistencies and errors in reasoning.
5) Approach problems in a consistent and systematic
way.
6) Reflect on the justification of their own
assumptions, beliefs and values.

7. Problems faced during the class
1. Writer’s block
2. Writing for different audiences
3. Grammar,style,spelling etc.
4. Notes taking

8. How will this class be organized
1. Two absences are OK.
2. Three in-class writings
3. Think and read during the class and write at
home (with exceptions)
4. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas
5. I am friendly (almost always)
6. 60/40
7. Be honest

9. What do you expect?