About This Course
Advanced Comprehensive English Writing is a course in English language skills, being aimed at undergraduate, graduate and PhD candidates not majoring in English. It includes fundamental level skills: word choice, sentence writing and paragraph writing, and more advanced skills: the four types of essay writing (narration, description, exposition and argumentation) and practical writing. This course presents topics on academic writing and presenting at international conference, helping students learn those skills needed for academic paper writing by providing many detailed and systematic explanations which also prepare students for making presentations at international conferences. All our teachers have years of teaching experience in writing. Our lectures are designed using task-based teaching, aiming to solve the most common writing problems. All our lecture scripts have been revised several times according to the suggestions of Prof. Jean Alvares, one of our lecturers. Fourteen quizzes are provided to consolidate what the students have learned in the videos.
Through taking this course, students will build a solid foundation for English writing skills, meeting the needs most students have regarding their English writing exams and publishing papers. The professional graduates will acquire skills in practical writing and academic graduates will learn how to construct the five paragraphs essay and other forms of academic writing, along with gaining the skills needed to present at international conferences.
Requirements
with English vocabulary about 4000
Course Staff
Fan Ling, professor of Beijing University of Chemical Technology; Ph.d; Visiting scholar of Montclair State University(US); Team leader of graduate English program of BUCT；Research interests: cognitive pragmatics and language teaching. With more than 20 years of graduate English teaching experience, she has presidedover and participated in several grants funded by BUCT to explore the reform and practices of graduate English teaching. She is the chief editor of more than ten English books and has published more than 30 journal articles on linguistics and language teaching.An academic book,A cognitive Study on Inferencing (2017) was published. She was honored as “excellent teacher” of the year 2007of BUCT.
Cao Xiaolei, associate Professor, master of Education inTESOL of University of Georgia; visiting scholar of University of California, Davis. She has taught courses in Comprehensive English and IELTS etc.
HE Hua, lecturer; The 6th “The Most Shining Star”—University Distinguished Teaching Scholar; The 1st Prize Winner of the Teaching Contest of Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press—Beijing University of Chemical Technology
ZHANG Shufang, an associate professor majoring in applied Linguistics, formerly a visiting scholar at UCLA. Currently, she is a faculty in the College English Department of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). In her past 20 yearof teaching in College English and English for Specific Purposes, she has been awarded the title of Excellent Young Lecturer of BUCT and has presided over and participated in a number of College English teaching reform projects. Additionally, she has edited more than 20 textbooks and published several papers on applied linguistics and teaching methodology.
Chen Xing is associate professor in Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She has won the 15th “Top 10 Teachers” Award in BUCT, Second Prize in the 10th Junior Teachers’Competition in BUCT and Third Prize in the 10th SFLEP National Foreign Language Teaching Contest (Beijing Division).
Liu Xuan, lecturer, visiting scholar of College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, second award winner of the Sixth Teaching Contest of Beijing University of Chemical Technology; three times winner of the title of “excellent teacher” of the year of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
Lecturer at BUCT. He has been awarded prizes and other honors for his excellence in teaching, including the 1st prize of the Social Sciences and Humanities Section in the 7th BUCT Teaching Contest for Young Teachers in 2011, the 3rd prize in the 7th Beijing Teaching Contest for Young College Teachers in 2011, the 3rd prize in the Beijing Regional Contest of the 6th SELEP National Foreign Language Teaching Contest in 2015, as well as the honorary title of the BUCT Excellent Young Lecturer in 2014.
Shen Haiyan Ph.d from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has taught English writing courses for 20 years in BUCT. Her research field is Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies. She is the project leader of “The Influence of Cleanth Brooks’ Irony Theory on Stephen Owen’s Interpretation of Yin-hsiu”,which was sponsored by Beijing Cultural Exchanges and World Cultural Studies InstituteGrant (No. BWSK201311).She is the author of over 20 journal papers on literature and English writing, and the co-editor of An Introduction to ModernEnglishClassics. Her most recent book, Cleanth Brooks’ Poetic Theory From the Perspective of Transcultural Dialogue, will be published in 2020.
Jean Alvares, professor at Montclair StateUniversity (US). He was the chair of the Department of Classics and Humanities. Research interests: the Ancient Geek and Roman novel, Classical myth and modern movies, the Humanities tradition (including Asian studies), and teaching with technology.He has taught a wide variety of subjects in Classics and Humanities, many of them as fully online courses. He has published more than 50 articles and one book “Classical Myth and the New Millennium” Oxford University Press.”(2017).He is currently on a book on ideal themes in Greek and Roman novels.
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