Developing Writing Skills in Arabic

Developing Writing Skills in Arabic
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Unit One: Personal correspondence
	Lesson 1 Cards, letters, and email
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Culture: letter format and formulae
		Grammar
			Review of weak verbs (Part One)
			Conjugating al-mithal and al-ajwaf
			The uses of qad
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
		Email (Part One)
		Topics for writing
		Suggested
readings on the theme of correspondence
Unit Two: Professional correspondence and writing
	Lesson 2 Formal letters, résumés, and email
		Pre-reading
		Reading
			• The advertisement
			• The letter
			• Writing: the résumé
		Vocabulary expansion
		Culture
		Grammar
			Review of weak verbs (Part Two)
				Conjugating al-naqis and al-lafif
			Nouns derived from weak verbs
			Al-ism al-manqus
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
		Email (Part Two)
		Topics for writing
		Suggested readings on the theme of correspondence
Unit Three: Instructions and advertisements
	Lesson 3 Advice and instructions
		Pre-reading
		Reading: kibbeh with eggplant and walnuts
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			The imperative
			The imperative
			Indirect command
			The negative imperative
			The emphatic nuun
			Interjections
		Culture: Abu Bakr’s advice to one of his generals
			The passive
		Style
			Expressions expansion
		Topics for writing
		Suggested readings
Unit Four: Description and comparison
	Lesson 4 Describing an object or a place
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Review of adjectives
			Emphatics and diminutives
			Dhu/Dhat
			Relative clauses
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
				Adjectives
				Geometric shapes
				Colors
		Culture: colors in idiomatic expressions
		Topics for writing
			Writing: description of a place based on
		Suggested readings
	Lesson 5 Describing a person
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Nominal sentences
			The Idāfa ghayr al-haqīqiyya
		Culture: usage of Idāfa ghayr al-
haqīqiyya
			Noun of stance or posture
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
				Body parts
				Adjectives of physical and 
character attributes
		Topics for writing
			Writing: Description of a person 
based on
		Suggested readings
	Lesson 6 Comparison
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Comparatives and superlatives
			Tamyīz al-muqārana
			Turning al-idāfa ghayr al-haqīqiyya 
into tamyīz
			Both
			Using ﻞﻋﺎﻔﺗ in comparison
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
		Topics for writing
			Writing: Comparison based on
		Suggested readings
Unit Five: Narration
	Lesson 7 Diaries, autobiographies, and biographies
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Review of verbal sentences
			Review of tenses
			Adverb of manner
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
		Topics for writing
			Writing: Diaries based on
		Suggested readings
	Lesson 8 Events and stories
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Tense frames
			Al-Hāl
		Culture
		Style
			Expressions from  the text
			Expressions expansion
				Verbs of narration
				Expressions of narration
				Genres of narration
		Topics for writing
			Writing: completing a story
		Suggested readings
Unit Six: Argumentation, opinion pieces, and academic writing
	Lesson 9 Opinion pieces
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Grammar
			Conditional sentences
		Culture
			Expressing exception
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
				Sentence connectors (Part 1)
					Explaining
					Illustrating with examples
		Topics for writing
			Writing: Opinion piece based on
			Writing an introduction
		Suggested readings
	Lesson 10 Academic writing
		Pre-reading
		Reading
		Vocabulary expansion
		Culture
		Grammar
			Adverb of purpose
			Emphasis
		Style
			Expressions from the text
			Expressions expansion
				Sentence connectors (Part 2)
					Concession and exception
					Cause, effect, and purpose
		Topics for writing
			Writing: Argumentative piece based on
			Writing a conclusion
		Suggested readings
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