Course Objectives:
Becoming familiar with and practicing basic writing strategies and simple text types

Objectives for Communication Skills:
• Rhetorical patterns for lists, comparison, argumentation, introductions and transitions in writing, politeness in letters and e-mails.
• Simple written presentation and interpretation of figures and facts, strategies for written summaries, formal letters

Grammar:
Grammar exercises related to specific text types
• Comparatives, articles, syntax, subordinate clauses (relative clauses, causal and conditional sentences, indirect questions)
• Idiomatic phrases
• Correction and analysis of mistakes in one's own and others' texts

Assessment criteria:
Regular class attendance, active participation, written homework, mid-term and final exams