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Lecture No.
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Description
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1
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Why writing skills are viewed as crucial
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2
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Writer as a communicator
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3
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Qualities and the concerns of a good writer
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4
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Good and bad writing
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5
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Principles of effective and meaningful writing
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6
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Journalistic Writing Process: Inventing and Collecting.
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7
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Journalistic Writing Process: Organizing, Drafting, Revising, and Proofreading.
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8
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Journalist’s Word Choices
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9
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Dictionary – a Writer’s Language Tool
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10
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Grammatical Sentence: Parts of speech
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11
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Grammatical Sentence: Basic clause pattern
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12
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A grammatical sentence: Actives and Passives
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13
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A grammatical sentence: Modifiers, Sentence types
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14
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A grammatical sentence: Reported speech
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15
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A grammatical sentence: Subject verb agreement, Problems with pronouns
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16
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A grammatical sentence: Adjective and adverbs, sentence fragments, comma splices and fused sentences
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17
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An effective sentence: Unity, Coherence, Emphasis, Parallelism, needed words, Shifts, Choppy sentences, Sentence variety
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18
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Style – Guidelines and Pitfalls I
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19
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Style – Guidelines and Pitfalls II
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20
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Paragraph writing: Unity, coherence and development in a paragraph. Simple listing paragraphs, order of importance paragraphs,
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21
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Time-order paragraphs; spatial order paragraphs; multi-paragraph composition
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22
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Essay writing: Essay and High Impact Language
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23
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Signal Words (transitions) for text’s organizational structure
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24
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The writing styles: Expository and report writing,
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25
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The writing styles: Descriptive and narrative writing,
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26
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The writing styles: Persuasive writing
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27
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Research writing and documenting sources – APA and MLA
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28
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Summarizing and Précis writing
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29
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Punctuation
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30
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Mechanics
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