Writing III

4th class : 23rd of march 2014

Agustien Mulyantini agustien1808@gmail.com

Universitas Terbuka Korea Selatan

 Essay is a group of paragraph about on subject The essay has an introduction, body and conclusion

Module 4 Basic Essays

Introduction begins the essay and prepares the readers for what will follow. It contains the thesis statement, which sets forth the main idea of the whole essay Body, is the longest part. Every paragraph of the essay must support and explain the thesis statement Conclusion indicates the end of the essay and leaves the reader with a final thought or suggestions

WRITING : Developing Topic

5 steps to develop the topic Write down everything you think relating to the topic Write some more. Narrow your topic

Unit 1
Developing Topic

Tie the similar ideas together

Write a rough draft

GRAMMAR : Parallelism

WRITING : Writing Open Composition

5 steps in writing open compositions: 1. Define your purpose is your composition to persuade people to believe as you do, to explain people how to do something, to educate people, or to tell or share idea? Brainstorm subject of interest after determining the purpose, write down some subjects that interest you. Evaluate each potential topic if you can think at least a few topics that would be appropriate, you must simply consider its one individually. Think about how you fell about that topic. Organize your ideas Draw a diagram or an outline

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Unit 2
Open Composition
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GRAMMAR : Pronouns

Defining Pronouns and Antecedents

Pronouns take the place of or refer to nouns, other pronouns, or phrases. The word that the pronoun refers to is called the antecedent of a noun.

Indefinite Pronouns Anybody, Anyone, Everyone, Everybody, Nobody, No one, One, Somebody, Someone. => singular

GRAMMAR : Pronouns

Special Singular Antecedents Each of , Neither (of) , Either (of) , Every one (of) , One (of) => singular

Collective nouns

WRITING : Writing Closed Compositions

Closed composition is a composition where you have no choice as your topic. In other words, you have to write based on the topic determined by someone else.

Unit 3 Closed Compositions

GRAMMAR : Transitional Expressions

Very essential to make coherent writing Transitional expressions are words and phrases that point out the exact relation between one idea and another, one sentence and another. Without transitional expression, sentences in a paragraph that can be confusing and hard to follow.

 Activity 1 Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3

EXERCISE

Activity 3 Unit 2 Activity 4 unit 3 LANGUAGE IN USE: Adding Transitional Expression