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Dec 04, 2024
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2022-2023 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ESL 080WG - Writing and Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English III 4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours 4 lecture periods 0 lab periods
High intermediate-level academic writing and grammar skills. Includes rhetorical forms, writing process and conventions, sentence structure, grammar, study strategies, technology, and college resources.
Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 080WG; or completion of ESL 070WG and ESL 060RV and ESL 060CM ; or placement into ESL 70 level and completion of ESL 070WG . Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Oral Communication course (CM) and an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score. Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Use high-intermediate level grammar, sentence structures, and mechanics in written tasks.
- Use high-intermediate level content and organization in written tasks.
Performance Objectives:
- Write and edit multi-paragraph academic compositions at the high intermediate level.
- Use high intermediate writing process and standard writing conventions.
- Use high intermediate sentence structure in written tasks.
- Identify and correctly use high intermediate grammatical structures in written tasks.
- Integrate a variety of study strategies into academic learning.
- Use technology for assignments and communication.
- Employ college resources.
Outline:
- Multi-paragraph Academic Compositions
- Summary and Response
- Cause and Effect
- Persuasive
- Writing Process and Conventions
- Choose and narrow topics
- Organize ideas
- Apply standard paragraph structure
- Topic sentence
- Supporting ideas
- Expansion/examples
- Coherence within and between paragraphs
- Develop standard essay structure
- Introduction with hook and thesis statement
- Supporting ideas
- Expansion/examples
- Conclusion
- Revision/editing
- Revise content
- Edit
- Sentence Structure
- Simple
- Compound
- Complex
- Production of adverb and adjective clauses
- Recognition of noun clauses
- Prepositional Phrases
- Grammar
- Verb tense and mood
- Present perfect vs. simple past and present
- Recognize past perfect
- Passive voice in present tense
- Past modals
- Real conditionals
- Parts of speech
- Adjectives
- Review of comparative and superlative
- Equative
- Adverbs
- Review of time, manner, frequency
- Review of comparative and superlative
- Equative
- Other structures
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Reported and quoted speech
- Study Strategies
- Use of syllabus
- Organization of course materials
- Interpretation of teacher feedback
- Use of various study techniques
- Test taking skills
- Technology
- Use technology for assignments
- Use technology for communication
- College Resources
- Faculty office hours
- Learning/tutoring center
- Advising and counseling center
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