DECONSTRUCTING GENERAL PAPER

 

 

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MIRROR SITE : http://members.lycos.co.uk/meridianus/

 

I will be transferring all the stuff to the IVLE. This site will only be for JC1 1st term students.

 

Check regularly for your notes:

 

PAPER 1

PAPER 2

CONTENTS YEAR 1 GP

0.    GP syllabus

§          Contents Page

§        P1 Marking Scheme

0.1 Symbols used in the marking of your Essays & Comprehension.

 

0. Identify main ideas from passage

 

§        Please collect the Comprehension Exercises [7 pgs] from canteen’s copy shop.

 

§        ‘Exercise 5’ for Wed 29/01   part 2    part 3     part 4

0.    The Little Prince

§        From Chp 10 onwards

§        Another Site

[Just read it from the web, unnecessary to print it. If you have the book all the better.]

§         WORKSHEET

 

1.    Introduction to Expository and Arguments

§        MISSING PAGE 2

 

 1. Comprehension: The Law & Drugs

1.1 Answers to “The Law & Drugs”

1.    Teenage Issues

1.1 American History X

1.2           Another good review

1.3           Worksheet for the movie.

 

2.    Prewriting skills I & II

                   I.      Brainstorming

                II.      Powerpoint notes

 

 2. Term 1Revision Notes

2.    Social/Moral/Ethics Issues

2.1 Eminem Worksheet

2.2 Abortion in Vietnam

3.    Writing Introductions [amended]

 3.1 Essay Comments

3.2 Sample Introductions

 

 3. Inference Skills

 3. Family Issues

3.1 Eugenics in Singapore

3.2 Family Issues Essay Plans

4.    Topic Sentence

 

 4. Summary Writing

 4. Intro to Globalisation

4.1 S’pore Version

4.2 Dr Yaacob’s Speech

4.3 Globalisation’s Impact

 

5.    Organising Paragraphs

 

 5.

 5. Mass Media

5.1 The Truman Show

5.2 Essay Qn on Mass Media

 

6.    Developing Arguments

·        obtain a copy from the copy shop

·        Toulmin Model

·        Fallacies (I)

·        Fallacies (II)

 

 6. Application Qn

 6. The Arts

6.1 Essay Qns on the Arts

6.1.1 Public $ & the Arts

6.2 Art & Technology

6.3 Art & Science

6.4 Value of Degas?

6.5 Sample Arts essay

6.6 Sample essay II Ü NEW!

 

 

7.     Cohesive Devices

 

 

 7. Education Readings 

7.1 Useful Quotes

7.2 Boston Public

7.3 Essay Qns on Education

7.4 Themes in Education

7.5 Dead Poets Society

 

8.     Conclusions

 

 

 8. Crime & PunishmentÜ NEW!

8.1 Sample Essay

8.2 Battle Royale (2000)

8.3 Readings on C & P Ü NEW!

 

9.     Essay Structure

·        sample 1

·        sample 2

·        sample 3

9.1 Argumentative Essay

 

 

 

 

Administrative Matters

 

1.    Everyone must have a personal piece of transparency and pen. I do not provide stationary.

2.    Most of the notes will be uploaded on this web.

4.    Please print out my notes at home and bring them to school.

5.     $3 will be collected from each student for Xeroxing material such as readings that will not be placed on the web. These are “copyright” material and they can only be Xeroxed for your personal use. When the fund is running low, I will collect it again.

6.     Select a GP representative to handle the collection of work.

7.     Group yourselves into groups of 4. This will be on the permanent basis.

 

 

Class Discipline

 

1.    Although GP lessons are full of active verbal participation, be sensitive to areas such as religion, race and gender.

2.     Work must be handled up promptly

3.      Attendance will be taken for every lesson.

4.    You must bring the GP file [thin plastic type] for every lesson.

5.    Remember You must acquire the SKILLS to score for GP.

 

References

 

General Reading [MLA FORMAT]

 

§         Barnet, Sylvan & Bedau, Hugo. Current Issues and Enduring Questions: Methods and Models of Argument. (Boston, Bedford Books, 1990)

§         Cheong, Colin. The General Paper jungle : survival guides. (Singapore : Times Books International, c1991)

§         Folse, Keith S. et al. Blueprints: Composition Skills for Academic Writing. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003)

§         Vestman, William. Reading and Writing Short Arguments. 4th Ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003)

§         O’Dell, Felicity. AO-Levels, A-Level and AS-Level: General Paper. (Singapore: Longman, 1991)

 

For Die Hard Fans [APA FORMAT]

 

§        Comley, Nancy R., et. al (eds), (1984). Fields of Writing: Readings Across The Disciplines. New York: St. Martmi's Press.

 

§        Eastman, Richard M. (1984). Style: writing and reading as the discovery of outlook. London: Oxford University Press.

 

§        Gerot, Linda & Wignell, Peter. (1995). Making Sense of Functional Grammar. NSW: Antipodean Educational Enterprises.

 

§        Van Emden, Joan.. & J. Easteal (1993). Report Writing, 2nd. Edition, Berkshlre: McGraw-Hill Book Company Europe.

 

§        Galo. Joseph.D. & Henry.W. Rink (1991). Shaping College Writing: paragraph and essay. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers.

 

§        Kramer, M.G., G. Leggett & C.D. Mead (1995). Prentice hall Handbook for Writers. Englewood ClIffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.

 

§        McCrimmon, James. M. (1980). Writing with a Purpose. London: Houghton Mifflin Company.

 

§        Robinson, William.S. & S. Tucker (2000). Texts and Contexts: a contemporary approach to college writing. 4th ed. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

 

§        Roth, Audrey. J. (1999). The Research Paper: process, Form and Content. 8th . Edition. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc.

 

§        Fairbairn, Gavin J. & Winch, Christopher. (1996). Reading, Writing and Reasoning. Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University Press.

 

§        VanAlystyne, Judith.S. (1990). Professional and Technical Writing Strategies Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall .

 

§        Walvoord, B.F. (1985). Writing: Strategies for All Discipline. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

 

§        Wood,  Nancy V.  (2002). Perspectives on Argument with APA Guidelines, 3rd ed. N.J. : Prentice Hall.

 

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