《思辨式英文写作》课程将思辨能力的培养与英语论说文写作教学有机结合，以思维训练为写作教学手段，以写作材料为思维训练素材，以思促写，以写促思，培养学生思辨能力的同时，提高学生英语写作水平。该课程定位为大学英语类课程，供旨在提高思辨能力和英语写作水平的学生选学。课程兼具工具性和人文性双重性质。就工具性而言，它旨在进一步提高学生的英语运用能力，特别是写作能力，使学生能够在国际交往中用准确的书面语言表达观点、进行沟通。就人文性而言，该课程通过培养学生的思辨能力，培养学生分析问题、解决问题、跨文化交际等21世纪核心素养。

课程学习目标

    完成此课程学习，学生将：

 知道思辨式写作的基本知识和要素；

 运用书面英语就一般话题表达清晰明确的观点；

 了解常见的5种论说方法；

 运用常见的5中论说方法，进行说理论证，支撑观点；

 掌握论说质量评价标准；

 权衡他人的论说，并用书面英语进行有力支持或反驳；

 综合运用写作和思辨知识，完成篇章写作；

 对实际问题进行思辨，形成自己的判断，并进行论说；

 以思辨精神审视自己的观点和写作，并进行修正；

 使用规范英语准确进行书面表达。

课程教学内容

    《思辨式英文写作》慕课教学内容分为（1）思辨能力训练；（2）英语写作知识与技巧；（3）书面英语常见问题三部分。以针对文章思想内容的思辨教学为主，以英语写作知识和书面表达教学为辅，实现内容与形式的有机结合。

单元测验，占总成绩25%

单元作业，占总成绩25%

课程考试，占总成绩50%

英语水平达到大学英语四级水平或与之相当程度。

Lesson 1 Critical Thinking and Critical Writing

Section 1 What Is Critical Thinking (I)?

Section 2 What Is Critical Thinking (II)?

Section 3 What Is Critical Writing?

Section 4 What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Critical Writing?

Section 5 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Word Choice

Lesson 1 单元测验

Lesson 2 Understanding Arguments and Essay Structure

Section 1 What Is an Argument? (I)

Section 2 What Is an Argument? (II)

Section 3 What is the structure of critical essays? (An Overview)

Section 4 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Introduction Section)

Section 5 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Body Section)

Section 6 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Conclusion)

Section 7 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Effective use of verbs

Lesson2 单元测验

Lesson 2 单元作业 A minimal essay outline

Lesson 3 Writing Theses and Introductions

Section 1 What Is a Thesis?

Section 2 Types of Theses

Section 3 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （I）

Section 4 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （II）

Section 5 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （III）

Section 6 Writing Introductions (I)

Section 7 Writing Introductions (II)

Section 8 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Periodic vs loose sentences

Lesson 3 单元测验

Lesson 3 单元作业 Writing an essay introduction

Lesson 4 Reasoning and Paragraph Writing

Section 1 What Is Reasoning?

Section 2 All about Reasons

Section 3 Oh! Evidence (I)

Section 4 Oh! Evidence (II)

Section 5 Reasoning vs Explaining

Section 6 Going into Explanations

Section 7 Patterns of Reasoning

Section 8 Paragraph Writing—Unity

Section 9 Paragraph Writing—Reasoning

Section 10 Paragraph Writing—Coherence

Section 11 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Use concrete and specific language

Language workshop: Transitional words

Lesson 4 单元测验

Lesson 4 单元作业 Paragraph Writing

Lesson 5 Applying Deductive Arguments to Writing

Section 1 Deductive Arguments

Section 2 Inductive Arguments

Section 3 Deductive Arguments vs Inductive Arguments

Section 4 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (I)

Section 5 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (II)

Section 6 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (I)

Section 7 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (II)

Section 8 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Parallel structure

Lesson 5 单元测验

Lesson 6 Applying Inductive Arguments to Writing

Section 1 Making Generalizations (I)

Section 2 Making Generalizations (II)

Section 3 Reasoning by Analogy (I)

Section 4 Reasoning by Analogy (II)

Section 5 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (I)

Section 6 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (II)

Section 7 Lesson Review—Employing Various Reasoning Techniques

Language workshop: Run-Ons and Commas

Lesson 6 单元测验

Lesson 6 First draft of your essay

Lesson 7 Evaluating and Improving Arguments

Section 1 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Principle

Section 2 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Definition

Section 3 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (I)

Section 4 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (II)

Section 5 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (III)

Section 6 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Analogy

Section 7 Evaluating and Revising Causal Reasoning (I)

Section 8 Evaluating and Improving Causal Reasoning (II)

Section 9 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Redundancies in English Sentences

Lesson 7 单元测验

Lesson 8 Writing Counter-Arguments and Essay Conclusions

Section 1 What Is a Counter-Argument?

Section 2 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (I)

Section 3 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (II)

Section 4 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（I）

Section 5 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（II）

Section 6 Writing Essay Conclusions

Section 7 Lesson Review

Language workshop: Capitalization and Punctuation

Lesson 8 单元测验

Lesson 8 单元作业 My revised essay

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Q :  这门课和普通的英文写作课有什么区别？

A :  传统写作课程注重写作中的形式方面，即篇章和语言技巧。这门课从写作中的内容方面入手，教给你如何思考，如何言之有物。同时也不忘关注形式方面的教学。双管齐下，效果更佳哦~

Q :  学习这门课要写很多英语文章才能得到证书吗？

A :  No！这门课遵循写作过程，从第一课到第八课，带领大家逐步完成一篇文章写作和修改。整个课程从认识思辨能力和思辨写作，到了解论辩结构和文章结构，再到学写文章开篇语论点，再到学写论说段落，再到完成篇章写作，最终修改完善文章。