Course Outline

WU16301 : Academic Writing

Credit Hours :2
Study Program : School of Medicine

Academic Year : 2010/2011 (Odd semester)

Day/Time : Monday, 09:05-10:50
UNIVERSITAS Room : Building B 605 & 606
PELITA HARAPAN
Lecturer : M.B. Rini Wahyuningsih, Ph.D.

Course Description:
This course prepares students to write English academic essays and papers for medical purposes. Students will learn how to write basic skills for
academic writing. To equip the students with the basic skills, the course covers writing critically, comparing/contrasting, classifying/categorizing,
cause and effect, and arguing.

General Instructional Objectives (GIO):

After taking the course students will be able to write essays academically.

Teaching Learning Process:

Assignments, readings, group discussions, and self-directed learning

Course Requirement: Reading Skills (or General English I)

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 Class Policy:
• Students must have a minimum of 70% attendance, including the Drop/Add period to sit in the final exam. If a student misses a class for any
reasons, it is his/her responsibility to find out what was covered in that class.
• Be punctual coming for class. If a student comes into class 15 minutes after the start of the class, he/she will be counted absent.
• Turn off cell phones and beepers before entering the class. Should a student have any emergency situation that requires such a device active,
please discuss it with the lecturer.
• No request for a postponed test will be allowed unless the student is hospitalized and can submit an approved medical certificate.
• All Assignments will be typed on A4 paper, 12pt print, double-spaced, in black ink, with a 1 inch margin on all sides.
• Plagiarism is illegal. Any plagiarized papers/tests are considered fail.

Media:
Articles, papers, and internet/web-sites

Evaluation:
Basic skills for academic writing: 50% covering a quiz and a project (20%), students’ attendance and participation (10%), and a mid test (20%).

Suggested Books:
Hogue, Ann. First Steps in Academic Writing. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1996.
Pike-Baky, M. and L. Blass. Mosaic 1: Writing; Paragraph Review and Essay Development. McGraw Hill, 2007.

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Meeting Topic Materials Sources Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Students will be able Course Introduction Course Outline
16/8 to know what the
sessiions cover
2 Students will be able Writing Critically Academic writing, Purpose • Hogue, Ann. First Steps in Academic Writing.
23/8 to write a paragraph Content, Features, and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1996.
critically Punctuation

3 Students will be able Comparing/Contrasting Comparison, Contrast, • Pike-Baky, M. and L. Blass. Mosaic 1: Writing;
30/8 to compare/contrast at Signalling words, Paragraph Review and Essay Development. McGraw
least two things in a Punctuation, Grammar, Hill, 2007.
paragraph Mechanics, and Paragraph
writing

4 Students will be able Classifying/Categorizing Classification/ • Pike-Baky, M. and L. Blass. Mosaic 1: Writing;
6/9 to classify/categorize a Categorization, Contrast Paragraph Review and Essay Development. McGraw
few things in a Signalling words Hill, 2007.
paragraph Punctuation, Grammar,
Mechanics, and Paragraph
writing

5 Holiday
13/9
6 Quiz
20/9
7 Students will be to Cause and Effect Cause/effect, Signalling • Pike-Baky, M. and L. Blass. Mosaic 1: Writing;
27/9 relate a cause and an words, Punctuation, Paragraph Review and Essay Development. McGraw
effect of an events in a Grammar, Mechanics, and Hill, 2007.
paragraph Paragraph writing

8 Students will be able Arguing Arguing, Signalling words • Pike-Baky, M. and L. Blass. Mosaic 1: Writing;
4/10 to make an argument Punctuation, Grammar Paragraph Review and Essay Development. McGraw
in a paragraph Mechanics, and Paragraph Hill, 2007.
writing

9 Midterm
11/10

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Student Representative Lecturer

M.B.Rini Wahyuningsih, Ph.D.

Prepared by: Approved by:

M.B. Rini Wahyuningsih, Ph.D. M.B. Rini Wahyuningsih, Ph.D.

Research Course Coordinator Dean of FLA