UTWP Pilot Modules
UTWP will pilot its writing modules on the NUS Kent Ridge campus beginning Semester 1, AY2009.
Four modules will be offered in the first semester:
WP2201A Expository Writing: Language Death
What does it mean for a language to die? In this expository writing module, we examine issues in language extinction: its social, political, and economic causes, and the impacts that the loss of language diversity will likely have on human society. Students will read key texts in the field supplemented with films and other materials, and will develop skills in comprehensible and cohesive writing, critical reasoning, rhetorical persuasion, and intellectually rigorous argumentation. Students proceed through progressively more challenging tasks, beginning with précis writing, to arguing a policy position, and culminating in a research paper.
[IVLE link]
Monday & Thursday 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
WP2201B Expository Writing: Models of Press Freedom
Who promotes, limits, and suppresses press freedom? What ideas lead them to justify these roles? In this expository writing module, we examine the social, political, and economic roots of divergent responses to press freedom and the likely impacts of restricting/restricting press freedom in democratic societies. Students will read key texts in the field supplemented with films and other materials, and will develop skills in comprehensible and cohesive writing, critical reasoning, rhetorical persuasion, and intellectually rigorous argumentation. Students proceed through progressively more challenging tasks, beginning with précis writing, to arguing a policy position, and culminating in a research paper.
[IVLE link]
Monday & Thursday 2:00-4:00 PM
WP2210A Analytic Writing: Language Death
Languages of the world are disappearing at an alarming rate. Why are languages dying, what impact does language death have on human society, and what, if anything, should be done to prevent it? In this analytical writing module, students will read a broad range of texts addressing the issue of language death, and will develop skills in synthesizing and thematically classifying arguments and evidence from multiple sources. The module emphasizes writing skills, the critical analysis of texts, identifying arguments, classifying information, and applying existing theoretical paradigms to primary sources.
[IVLE link]
Tuesday & Friday 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
WP2210B Analytic Writing: Models of Press Freedom
What is it about press freedom that spawns opposing notions of what press freedom is and role of a free press in democratic communities? In this analytical writing module, students will read a broad range of texts addressing the issue of press freedom, and will develop skills in synthesizing and thematically classifying arguments and evidence from multiple sources. The module emphasizes writing skills, the critical analysis of texts, identifying arguments, classifying information, and applying existing theoretical paradigms to primary sources.
[IVLE link]
Tuesday & Friday 2:00-4:00 PM.
Workload and assessment for all the above:
(1) Workload: 0-4-0-0-6 (4 MCs)
(2) Assessment:
CA components(%)
Class participation: 10%
Papers: 80%
Individual Presentations: 10%
Total for CA: 100%
Venue
All classes will be held at BLOCK ADMIN SR-6, Level 5.
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