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思辨式英文写作
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开课时间: 2025年02月14日 ~ 2025年06月27日
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spContent=想成为具有思辨能力的人?想知道如何审视并回应不同观点?想用英语有效表达自己的思想?想在英语写作时言之有物?那就不要错过《思辨式英文写作》课程!
想成为具有思辨能力的人?想知道如何审视并回应不同观点?想用英语有效表达自己的思想?想在英语写作时言之有物?那就不要错过《思辨式英文写作》课程!
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课程概述

  《思辨式英文写作》课程将思辨能力的培养与英语论说文写作教学有机结合,以思维训练为写作教学手段,以写作材料为思维训练素材,以思促写,以写促思,培养学生思辨能力的同时,提高学生英语写作水平。该课程定位为大学英语类课程,供旨在提高思辨能力和英语写作水平的学生选学。课程兼具工具性和人文性双重性质。就工具性而言,它旨在进一步提高学生的英语运用能力,特别是写作能力,使学生能够在国际交往中用准确的书面语言表达观点、进行沟通。就人文性而言,该课程通过培养学生的思辨能力,培养学生分析问题、解决问题、跨文化交际等21世纪核心素养。


课程学习目标


  完成此课程学习,学生将:

 知道思辨式写作的基本知识和要素;

 运用书面英语就一般话题表达清晰明确的观点;

 了解常见的5种论说方法;

 运用常见的5种论说方法,进行说理论证,支撑观点;

 掌握论说质量评价标准;

 权衡他人的论说,并用书面英语进行有力支持或反驳;

 综合运用写作和思辨知识,完成篇章写作;

 对实际问题进行思辨,形成自己的判断,并进行论说;

 以思辨精神审视自己的观点和写作,并进行修正;

 使用规范英语准确进行书面表达。


课程教学内容

  《思辨式英文写作》慕课教学内容分为(1)思辨能力训练;(2)英语写作知识与技巧;(3)书面英语常见问题三部分。以针对文章思想内容的思辨教学为主,以英语写作知识和书面表达教学为辅,实现内容与形式的有机结合。


课程配套教材

  《思辨式英文写作》,唐磊 李霞 主编,高等教育出版社,2023.

授课目标

  完成此课程学习,学生将:

 知道思辨式写作的基本知识和要素;

 运用书面英语就一般话题表达清晰明确的观点;

 了解常见的5种论说方法;

 运用常见的5种论说方法,进行说理论证,支撑观点;

 掌握论说质量评价标准;

 权衡他人的论说,并用书面英语进行有力支持或反驳;

 综合运用写作和思辨知识,完成篇章写作;

 对实际问题进行思辨,形成自己的判断,并进行论说;

 以思辨精神审视自己的观点和写作,并进行修正;

 使用规范英语准确进行书面表达。

课程大纲
Critical Thinking and Critical Writing
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 单元测验
Understanding Arguments and Essay Structure
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
Lesson 2 单元讨论 A Minimal Essay Outline
Lesson2 单元测验
Writing Theses and Introductions
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 单元讨论 Writing an Essay Introduction
Lesson 3 单元测验
Reasoning and Paragraph Writing
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 单元测验
Lesson 4 单元作业 Paragraph Writing
Applying Deductive Arguments to Writing
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 单元测验
Applying Inductive Arguments to Writing
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 单元讨论 Reasoning with Different Strategies
Lesson 6 单元测验
Evaluating and Improving Arguments
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 单元测验
Writing Counter-Arguments and Essay Conclusions
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 单元测验
Lesson 8 单元作业 Writing a complete critical essay
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预备知识

英语水平达到大学英语四级水平或与之相当程度。

参考资料

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. 美国大学英语写作 (第六版). 外语教学与研究出版社, 2013.

Kanar, Carol C. The college writer (第5版). 北京大学出版社, 2011.

Richard, Paul, and Linda Elder. Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life. Prentice Hall, 2011.

王一普, 简悦. 新大学英语思辨阅读. 高等教育出版社, 2017.

常见问题

Q : 这门课和普通的英文写作课有什么区别?

A : 传统写作课程注重写作中的形式方面,即篇章和语言技巧。这门课从写作中的内容方面入手,教给你如何思考,如何言之有物。同时也不忘关注形式方面的教学。双管齐下,效果更佳哦~

Q : 学习这门课要写很多英语文章才能得到证书吗?

A : No!这门课遵循写作过程,从第一课到第八课,带领大家逐步完成一篇文章写作和修改。整个课程从认识思辨能力和思辨写作,到了解论辩结构和文章结构,再到学写文章开篇语论点,再到学写论说段落,再到完成篇章写作,最终修改完善文章。 

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