《思辨式英文寫作》是南開大學提供的慕課課程，授課老師是唐磊、李霞、時雨、沈海波、Michael Shaun Patrick Hooper。
基本介紹
- 中文名：思辨式英文寫作
- 提供院校：南開大學
- 類別：慕課
- 授課老師：唐磊、李霞、時雨、沈海波、Michael Shaun Patrick Hooper
課程大綱,參考教材,
課程大綱
01
Critical Thinking and Critical Writing
課時
Section 1 What Is Critical Thinking (I)?
Section 2 What Is Critical Thinking (II)?
Section 3 What Is Critical Writing?
Section 4 What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Critical Writing?
Section 5 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Word Choice
Lesson 1 單元測驗
02
Understanding Arguments and Essay Structure
課時
Section 1 What Is an Argument? (I)
Section 2 What Is an Argument? (II)
Section 3 What is the structure of critical essays? (An Overview)
Section 4 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Introduction Section)
Section 5 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Body Section)
Section 6 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Conclusion)
Section 7 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Effective use of verbs
Lesson2 單元測驗
Lesson 2 單元作業 A minimal essay outline
03
Writing Theses and Introductions
課時
Section 1 What Is a Thesis?
Section 2 Types of Theses
Section 3 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （I）
Section 4 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （II）
Section 5 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （III）
Section 6 Writing Introductions (I)
Section 7 Writing Introductions (II)
Section 8 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Periodic vs loose sentences
Lesson 3 單元測驗
Lesson 3 單元作業 Writing an essay introduction
04
Reasoning and Paragraph Writing
課時
Section 1 What Is Reasoning?
Section 2 All about Reasons
Section 3 Oh! Evidence (I)
Section 4 Oh! Evidence (II)
Section 5 Reasoning vs Explaining
Section 6 Going into Explanations
Section 7 Patterns of Reasoning
Section 8 Paragraph Writing—Unity
Section 9 Paragraph Writing—Reasoning
Section 10 Paragraph Writing—Coherence
Section 11 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Use concrete and specific language
Language workshop: Transitional words
Lesson 4 單元測驗
Lesson 4 單元作業 Paragraph Writing
05
Applying Deductive Arguments to Writing
課時
Section 1 Deductive Arguments
Section 2 Inductive Arguments
Section 3 Deductive Arguments vs Inductive Arguments
Section 4 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (I)
Section 5 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (II)
Section 6 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (I)
Section 7 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (II)
Section 8 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Parallel structure
Lesson 5 單元測驗
06
Applying Inductive Arguments to Writing
課時
Section 1 Making Generalizations (I)
Section 2 Making Generalizations (II)
Section 3 Reasoning by Analogy (I)
Section 4 Reasoning by Analogy (II)
Section 5 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (I)
Section 6 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (II)
Section 7 Lesson Review—Employing Various Reasoning Techniques
Language workshop: Run-Ons and Commas
Lesson 6 單元測驗
Lesson 6 First draft of your essay
07
Evaluating and Improving Arguments
課時
Section 1 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Principle
Section 2 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Definition
Section 3 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (I)
Section 4 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (II)
Section 5 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (III)
Section 6 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Analogy
Section 7 Evaluating and Revising Causal Reasoning (I)
Section 8 Evaluating and Improving Causal Reasoning (II)
Section 9 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Redundancies in English Sentences
Lesson 7 單元測驗
08
Writing Counter-Arguments and Essay Conclusions
課時
Section 1 What Is a Counter-Argument?
Section 2 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (I)
Section 3 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (II)
Section 4 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（I）
Section 5 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（II）
Section 6 Writing Essay Conclusions
Section 7 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Capitalization and Punctuation
Lesson 8 單元測驗
Lesson 8 單元作業 My revised essay
參考教材
Chaffee, John. Thinking Critically (Tenth Edition). Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.
Dietsch, Betty Mattix. Reasoning and writing well (Third Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Donald, McQuade, and Robert Atwan. Thinking in writing (Fourth Edition). McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Facione, Peter, and Carol Ann Gittens. Thinking critically. Pearson, 2013.
Hammond, Eugene R. Critical thinking, thoughtful writing (Second Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2008.
John, Langan. 美國大學英語寫作 (第六版). 外語教學與研究出版社, 2013.
Kanar, Carol C. The college writer (第5版). 北京大學出版社, 2011.
Richard, Paul, and Linda Elder. Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life. Prentice Hall, 2011.
王一普, 簡悅. 新大學英語思辨閱讀. 高等教育出版社, 2017.
