Table 3 Overview of Ms Cheng’s teaching contents in EW I
Theme | No. of slides | Details | Genres involved |
|---|---|---|---|
Introduction | 10 | orientation & course requirements; four common rhetorical modes (narration, description, exposition, argumentation) | |
Punctuation | 20 | ||
Proper words | 21 | words & style: informal v.s. formal; practical v.s. eloquent; general v.s. specific | |
Narration | to entertain | ||
Personal narratives | 5 | chronological order; insights into human behaviour or motivation | recount, exemplum |
Objective reports | 6 | attitudes/feelings | anecdote |
Unpleasant experiences | 6 | showing or telling; chronological order; use of action verbs | narrative, observation |
Historical narratives | 3 | a person’s life; history of a family; establishment and development of an organisation; [introduction ^ account ^ remark] (c.f., Orientation ^ Life Stages /Sequence of Recount ^ Deduction) | biographical recount, historical recount |
Description | |||
Place | 6 | senses; spatial order; features; a dominant expression | descriptive report, anecdote |
Object | 3 | senses; spatial order; features/functions; a dominant expression | |
Person | 6 | personality; behaviour; qualities; concrete, vivid details; person in action; using anecdotes |