The course aims to teach writing paraphrases, summaries, essays and formal correspondence.
1. Paraphrase.
2. Practice: Paraphrasing short texts/paragraphs
3. Summarizing: what is summary? key points versus details in the text
4. Practice: one-sentence summaries, selective and global summaries
5. Formal English – Introduction (the difference between spoken/written English, when do we use formal English?)
6. Formal English – editing practice, correcting mistakes
7. Letters –formal and informal
8. Letter of Application
9. Formal e-mail (e.g. to a University Profesor)
10. Comparison & contrast essay/ Report
- Teacher: Sylwia Kossakowska-Pisarek