Length of Course: One semester (Fourteen weeks)

 

Classroom Hours Per Week:  four hours per week

 

Prerequisite: C- in English 099 or Communications 12

 

Description of Course: Writing 099 is a pre-university course in academic writing (expository prose), grammar and sentence development for students who are planning to take UT English.

 

Written Assignments: Students will complete a number of assignments and a final examination.

 

Evaluation :
summary 10%
2 short essays 30%
research paper 15%
Participation 10%
Final examination 35%

 

Textbooks: Writing Academic English (Oshima and Hogue 1999)

 

Instructors :

Steve Barnes , B.Sc. ( Alberta), M.A. ( British Columbia)
Zeferino Cabrita, B.A., B.F.A., M.A. ( British Columbia)
Dilek Cansin , B.A. ( Macalester College), M.A. ( British Columbia)
Debra Clarke , B.Sc., M.A., TESL Cert ( British Columbia)
Elizabeth Gowland, B.A. Hons., M.A. (Simon Fraser), TESL Cert. (VCC)
Leah Kaser, B.A. ( British Columbia), M.Ed. ( Lesley College)
Angela Lavery , B.A., B.Ed., ( Toronto), M.A. ( British Columbia)
Ameena Mayer , B.A. ( McGill, British Columbia), M.A. (Victoria)
Leslie Mercer , B.A.( British Columbia), M.A. ( University College Dublin)
Denis Roberts, B.A., P.D.P., M.A. (Simon Fraser)
Jim Smith , B.Ed., M.Ed. ( British Columbia), M.A.(Simon Fraser)
Gary Swanson , B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. ( British Columbia)