Course Program

Faculdade de Letras

Tópicos em Língua Inglesa: Inglês – Produção de Textos 

LET 063      

Deise Prina Dutra

Office hours: Room 4111 - Thursdays 11am-12pm or by appointment

dpdutra@ufmg.br

Course objective: development of skills to write academic texts (report, essay, abstract and term paper)

Tentative Schedule

Month	Online classes (Tuesdays)	Face-to-face classes (Thursdays)
August	3 (*face-to-face) 10 17 24 31	5 12 19 26
September	7 (Holiday) 14 21 28	2 9 16 23 (Midterm - in class essay) 30
October	5 12 (Holiday) 19 (Semana da UFMG) 26	7 (conference no class) 14 (*online class) 21(Semana da UFMG) 28
November	2 (Holiday) 9 16 23 30	4 (conference no class) 11 18 25
December		2 (grades)

Evaluation and Attendance

In every face-to-face or online class you will be required to do tasks that will count for your final grade and class attendance. Make sure you sign the attendance list every class. 

1. In-class tasks

1 point each  = 15 points

2. Essays

1 argumentative and 1 comparison and contrast essay = 5 points each = 10 points

3. Profile

5 points

4. Reports

20 points

5. Midterm essay – in-class

20 points

6. Abstract

10 points

7. Term Paper

20 points

Bibliography

Daly, Bill. Writing Argumentative Essays.
http://www.ltn.lv/~markir/essaywriting/frntpage.htm

Heard, J & Tucker, T. An Accelerated Method for University Students.135p. http://teflbootcamp.com/AdvancedWriting.pdf

Kies, Daniel. English Composition 1101.
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/table101.htm

Nordquist, Richard. Punctuating Sentences Correctly
http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/a/revexpunct.htm

The Writing Center – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

The University of Madison Writing Center

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html

How to Write an Abstract -Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html

The University of Arizona Writing Center

http://english.arizona.edu/index_site.php?id=471&preview=1

JORDAN, R. R. Academic writing course. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education, 1999. Número de Chamada: 428.24 J82a 1999 (LETRAS)

O'HALLORAN. K. A. ; COFFIN, C. Getting started : describing the grammar of speech and writing - 2nd ed / 2006 Número de Chamada: 420.7  G394  2006  Faculdade de Letras