157/167 Advanced Grammar

SPRING 1999 SYLLABUS

Week 1 (April 2)

Course introduction; diagnostic writing assignment

Weeks 2, 3 and 4 (April 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23)

Part V (Units 12-15) Adverbials and Discourse Connectors

Part V exam - April 21

Weeks 5 and 6 (April 26, 28, 30, May 3, 5, 7)

Part VI (Units 16 and 17) Adjective Clauses

Part VI exam - May 5

Weeks 7 and 8 (May 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21)

Part VII (Units 18 and 19) Noun Clauses

Part VII exam - TBA

Weeks 9, 10 and 11 (May 24, 26, 28 June 2, 4, 7)

Part VIII (Units 20 and 21) Unreal Conditions

No ELI classes May 31 - Memorial Day

Part VIII exam - June 4

Last day of ELI classes June 7

Our general routine for each Part, subject to change, will go like this:

Monday	Submit final essay of previous Part and pre-test for new Part ; go over grammar explanation of new unit
Wednesday	Textbook exercises
Friday	Learning Center - grammar exercises
Monday	First draft of essay due; go over grammar explanation of new unit
Wednesday	Textbook exercises
Friday	Learning Center - do essay editing activities; submit workbook assignment record sheet

For homework, you will be studying grammar points; doing selected workbook exercises based on your diagnostic test results; doing textbook exercises; doing review/self tests; and working on the first and final drafts of your essays

For each Part, you will:

1. take a pre-test and a post-test (final test). The pre-tests will be a homework assignment corrected by you, using an answer key distributed by the instructor; the post-tests will be part of the midterm and final exams corrected and graded by the instructor.
2. do textbook exercises in class and for homework. Generally, these will be corrected by you, as the textbook comes with an answer key.
3. do workbook exercises for homework. You will correct the assignments, enter the score on the workbook exercise scoresheet and submit the scoresheet as directed by the instructor.
4. do grammar exercises on the computer in class on every other Friday.
5. write at least two drafts of an essay and peer review a classmate's essay. (Note - there will be no essay assignment for Part VIII; thus, there will be a total of three essay assignments.) When submitting the final draft of the essay, attach all previous drafts, notes, outlines, peer reviews, writing assistant reports, etc. I want to see everything you did to produce the final draft. The final draft must be word-processed; preliminary drafts do not. After getting the final draft back, you can then continue to re-write your essay and re-submit if you want to try to improve the essay grade. You can re-write as many times as you like up until June 2.