Advanced Essay Writing

Requirements: Regular participation, homework and tests Master: Oral Presentation and Written Exam Lehramt Master: Written Exam State Exam: Written Exam

This course is aimed at all Master and State Exam students. Foreign students whose English is at an advanced level may also participate.

This course will develop the work of the Writing course and will focus particularly on writing argumentative essays. The course will examine what makes a good essay and practise the planning, structuring, style and checking of essays. A key aspect will be the practice of new lexis and idiom typical of formal writing style. Texts which provide both excellent models of English writing and provocative topics for debate will be studied with the aim of transferring the writing skills and language encountered into active usage.

Materials:

The materials should be purchased at EMF Bürotechnik, Zellescher Weg 21, 01217 Dresden. Please bring these materials to the first meeting

Prerequisites:

- the Entry Test must have been passed.

- either you are matriculated for Master or

  for State Exam

- all courses in years 1-3 except Options courses have been completed.