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University
English Program (UEP)
The
University English
Program (UEP) is the
program for students who have successfully completed the orientation year and have now
joined the University's undergraduate program. There are currently 17 UEP faculty members
who instruct between 1,700 and 2,100 undergraduate students each semester. This faculty is
recruited from experienced OEP teachers. Instructors teach two of the three UEP courses;
Composition I, Composition II and Technical Report Writing. There is also one graduate
course taught by UEP faculty, English 510, which is a thesis-writing course for graduate
engineering students.
Composition I:
The main composition element of this introduction to academic discourse is organized on
the basis of the principle methods of exposition (comparison, causal analysis,
classification, etc.) at the sentence, paragraph, and composition levels. Attention is
also paid to such important aspects of text as coherence, unity, conciseness, and sentence
readability, and to problem areas of grammar and sentence structure such as fragments,
fused sentences, and subject-verb agreement. The reading element focuses on ways to
improve student reading of technically oriented textbooks, encyclopedias, and specialist
periodicals.
Composition II:
Composition II is generally referred to as English 102. The general objective of the
course is to provide students with skills to write a 600 to 800 word term paper on an
assigned topic.
The course starts with learning to paraphrase and synthesize ideas from several different
sources. Learning to use the library is the next step. Students are familiarized with the
University Library's circulation and reference sections. They are taught how to locate
printed materials by using the library's computer catalog. They are also introduced to the
library's indexes and the microfilm/microfiche facilities. Other basic research skills
taught include the writing of bibliographies and the use of documentation. Finally,
students are instructed in selecting and narrowing a topic, taking notes from sources and
formatting a term paper.
Technical Report Writing:
This course is generally referred to as English 214. Its focus is the library research
report of between 1,000 and 1,200 words. Students choose and narrow a research topic
within their major field of study and use the resources of the University library to find
books and articles related to their topic. They must use at least six recent sources to
write the report and they must provide a bibliography and references.
Before writing their reports, students write descriptive and informative abstracts, short
reports requiring the integration of material from several courses, and an academic
proposal relating to their research report. They are expected to use logical, concise,
precise and objective technical English to write the report, and they are given basic
instruction in this. At the end of the course, they learn the content, strategy and style
appropriate to five kinds of business letters, in addition to writing a resume and memos.
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