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Unit (Theme/Issues) Writing Skills Language Study Critical Thinking Intercultural Competence

Unit 1 An Overview of  Distinguish argumentative  Analyze arguments on  Understand similarities Human Beings and Argumentative Writing language from that used the relationship and differences between Nature  Understand the nature and in description and between human beings Chinese and Western P1 structure of argumentation narration and Nature views on Nature and  Distinguish argumentative  Observe and evaluate  Evaluate causal their relevance to the writing from narrative and language used in typical reasoning on the issue current discussion on expository writing argumentation of global warming environmental issues  Identify topics appropriate  Examine the  Formulate a Chinese for argumentation, develop arguments for and perspective on the arguments, and be able to against wildlife international controversy evaluate them critically protection from the regarding responsibility perspectives of for climate change instrumental and mitigation intrinsic value Unit 2 How to Make a Good Claim  Distinguish effective from  Identify and interpret  Understand similarities The Primary Purpose  Understand what a claim is ineffective language different claims and differences in of Education  Distinguish different types  Use language effectively regarding the purpose Chinese and Western P31 of claims in making a claim of education views on the purpose of  Evaluate a claim and  Analyze and evaluate education improve it the assumptions  Compare and contrast behind controversial Chinese and Western claims related to the views on curriculum purpose of education design, teaching  Explore the methods, textbook implications and writing, teacher-student consequences of such relations, etc. claims Unit 3 How to Support a Claim  Identify the signposting  Identify and  Understand the rationale Crime and Justice  Support an argumentation words for premises and understand offered by different legal P59 claim conclusions perspectives related to systems regarding  Distinguish types of  Use the signposting words juvenile delinquency juvenile delinquents support in argumentation to make a coherent and gun control  Identify and articulate  Compose statements that argument  Evaluate the cultural similarities and support arguments assumptions differences regarding underlying these gun control perspectives  Reflect on the nature of  Explore the crime and how different implications and cultures view crime consequences of these prevention perspectives Unit 4 How to Make Refutations  Identify general and  Anticipate objections  Understand cultural Tradition and  Anticipate opposing points specific words in a to commonly held diversity and cultural Modernization of view in argumentation passage views on globalization homogeneity P83  Define and identify  Balance general and and assess whether  Understand the refutations in an argument specific words in your these objections importance of cultural  Make good refutations writing identify significant context when assessing weaknesses in the the significance of views globalization  Evaluate the changes  Explore and understand that have occurred in different ways of life of the 20th and 21st different cultures in centuries traditional and modern  Develop criteria for periods evaluating traditional and modern life styles Unit 5 How to Develop Effective  Understand the concept of  Understand the issue  Understand the Technological Reasoning hedging language and the of technological differences in meaning Innovation and  Understand principles for need for it in writing innovation and human between “reasoning” in Human Progress effective reasoning  Learn to use hedging progress and English and “理” in P107  Distinguish different modes language in writing when understand differing Chinese of reasoning appropriate claims regarding the  Compare and contrast  Evaluate the effectiveness relationship between Chinese and Western of reasoning the two views on technology and  Analyze and evaluate its role in human assumptions behind progress controversial claims as to the relationship between technological innovation and human progress  Explore implications and consequences of such claims Unit 6 How to Avoid Logical  Use modal auxiliary verbs  Analyze and evaluate  Understand the complex Multiculturalism and Fallacies in hedging language the assumptions relationship between Its Challenges  Understand the definition  Use probability adjectives behind differing claims humanism and P137 of logical fallacies and adverbs in hedging regarding cosmopolitanism  Distinguish different types language multiculturalism in the involved in intercultural of logical fallacies  Use frequency adverbs in U.S. communication  Avoid logical fallacies in hedging language  Understand the  Analyze the differences your own writing assumptions behind between diversity and the definitions of pluralism and explore humanism and the implications and cosmopolitanism consequences of  Explore the pluralism in the U.S. implications and consequences of claims regarding multiculturalism and humanism Unit 7 How to Evaluate Evidence  Identify different figures  Identify and interpret  Compare and contrast  Identify and distinguish of speech different perspectives the characteristics of Gender Differences different types of evidence  Distinguish metaphor, on the issue of gender gender inequality in and Equality  Determine whether the parallelism, and irony differences and different cultures evidence is strong and  Evaluate their respective equality  Explain the cultural P165 adequate functions and/or  Analyze and evaluate reasons for gender  Select and use relevant, implications in claims regarding inequality in different strong and adequate argumentative writing gender differences and societies evidence equality/inequality  Explore possible ways to ensure gender equality Unit 8 How to Write with Coherence  Understand  Identify and  Distinguish the War and Peace and Cohesion nominalization in understand different underlying reasons for P193  Define “coherence” and academic writing perspectives on the various kinds of wars “cohesion”  Use nominalization issue of war and peace between  Identify techniques used to effectively  Argue for or against countries/cultures and make writing coherent and the possibility of the consequences on the cohesive lasting world peace parties involved  Distinguish  Explore possible  Evaluate the “soft coherent/cohesive writings practices to maintain power”of the United from incoherent and/or world peace States in maintaining its incohesive ones global influence  Revise essays to make them more coherent and cohesive