This thesis aims to examine the right directions for the development of new college writing textbooks that would start to be used in the first semester of 2016. The Textbook Compilation Committee tried to determine the directions for new writing textb...
This thesis aims to examine the right directions for the development of new college writing textbooks that would start to be used in the first semester of 2016. The Textbook Compilation Committee tried to determine the directions for new writing textbooks, and determined to consider both thinking and expression in a synthetic way and to compile separate textbooks for different major fields of study.
And the Textbook Compilation Committee made the following suggestions after a survey was conducted on the selected learners: First, a wide variety of writing activities should be presented for the sake of learners who feel the need for writing for practical purposes. Second, the speaking section should be strengthened, and strategies about how to prepare presentation materials should be stressed. Specifically, how to foster presentation skills and how to write the statement should primarily be taught. Third, the use of exercises is necessary to provide motivation for learners to engage in more activities in class. Fourth, the kind of example sentences that are accessible to learners should be placed in front, as the difficulty of existing example sentences was pointed out by the learners. Fifth, the writing strategy for term-end essay that is currently included in the appendix should be moved to the body of textbook, and the right directions for essay writing for different fields of study should separately be presented in consideration of the characteristics of each field.
Ultimately, it's intended to compile efficient new textbooks to stimulate students, who use the textbooks in class, to continue to make use of them as their guides for writing even after they take all the classes in which the textbooks are used. To make it happen, the Textbook Compilation Committee should try to ignite the interest of students in writing, to improve the practicality of new textbooks and to seek ways of fostering the thinking faculty of new college students, which is their biggest shortcoming.