英語圏文学特殊研究1

授業テーマ	Improving overall English skills; the basics of textual studies: reading, interpretation, and criticism; and advanced academic writing skills.
授業のねらい・到達目標	This course is designed to give graduate students more advanced training and practice in reading, interpreting and criticizing texts of various genres. It is meant to lay the foundations for writing research papers in English.
授業の方法	The first part of the course will concentrate on the fundamentals of academic argument. With those fundamentals in place, we will then move on to analyzing and constructing arguments through extensive reading, summary and paraphrase writing, and thesis-centered responses. There will be challenging reading and writing homework assignments each week; therefore, only highly motivated students should take this course.
事前学修・事後学修，授業計画コメント	The class schedule is an indication of what we might cover; we will make changes as needed as the semester progresses.

授業計画
1	Introduction; the basics of argument
2	They say/I say; joining the big conversation
3	summarizing, paraphrasing, responding
4	Aristotle's appeals
5	The Toulmin system
6	extended argument analysis
7	analyzing an argument; summary-response: newspaper editorial
8	analyzing an argument; summary-response: opinion column
9	analyzing an argument; summary-response: Declaration of Independence
10	analyzing an argument; summary-response: working with a longer article
11	analyzing an argument; summary-response: working with literary theory/criticism ①
12	analyzing an argument; summary-response: working with literary theory/criticism ②
13	analyzing an argument; summary-response: in-class presentations; peer review of first drafts of final paper
14	consultations
15	review; final essay due

その他
教科書	Materials will be supplied by the instructor.
成績評価の方法及び基準	平常点(30%)、homework assignments and presentations(40%)、final essay(30%)
オフィスアワー	Monday 16:30-18:00; or by appointment