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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2021 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ESOL 162N
- Course Title:
- Level 6 Academic Writing NC
- Credit Hours:
- 0
- Contact Hours:
- 150
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网s upper-intermediate writing skills. Reviews the writing process with descriptive/narrative, process, and comparison/contrast essays. Improves verb tenses, sentence types, punctuation, and spelling patterns. Introduces adverb and adjective clauses, reported speech, passive voice, and gerunds and infinitives. This is the third course of a five-course sequence.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Use writing to reflect and clarify thinking and to develop fluency.
- Apply linguistic knowledge to clearly communicate through writing in professional, civic, and academic situations commonly encountered in the U.S.
- Apply critical thinking to writing with an understanding of one’s own cultural filter, using concepts learned in a multi-cultural environment; apply cultural understanding learned in class to examine and appreciate the writing of others.
- Use the accepted patterns of organization and clarity common to professional and academic writing in the U.S.
- Use a multi-step process to plan, revise, and edit written work, including tools (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus) and sources to support writing.
Aspirational Goals
Write a clear, well developed five-paragraph essay with an appropriate introduction and conclusion and a clear thesis statement.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
A. Essays
Write a minimum of five essays, the majority of which are satisfactory*, including:
- in-class essays
- out-of-class essays
* explanation of satisfactory attached - an essay not tied to a particular rhetorical style. Some suggestions include:
- personal statement
- cover letter
- letter of interest
- simple English Wikipedia/eHow
- journals (e.g. responses to writing or other media)
- advice column (e.g. problem anonymously submitted and everyone solves)
- how to be successful in Level 6 for incoming students
- self reflection on in-class activity
B. Optional assessment strategies
- a request to an instructor/employer for letter of recommendation
- resume/CV
- emails (e.g. formal, informal, or for specific purposes such as political)
- a review on Yelp or other online review
- constructive course evaluations
- volunteer applications
- dispute of a parking ticket
- an incident or accident report at work
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
A. Grammar and Mechanics
Phrases and Clauses:
- review sentence patterns
- use simple, compound and complex sentences
- use adverb clauses of time, reason, and contrast
- use prepositional and transitional phrases
- identify and correct sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices
Emerging competency:
- recognize adverb clauses in the conditional (real)
- recognize adjective clauses
- recognize noun clauses and reported speech
Verbs and Related Structures:
- use simple present, simple past, simple future, present continuous, past continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses competently
- use transitive, intransitive and linking verbs competently
- use passive voice effectively
- use modals (present and future) and related words correctly
Emerging competency:
- recognize past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses
- recognize future continuous, future perfect and future perfect continuous tenses
- recognize two-word verbs
- recognize perfect, progressive and passive modals
- recognize gerunds and infinitives
Other Parts of Speech:
- use pronouns, adverbs, prepositions of place and time, coordinating conjunctions, count and non-count nouns, comparative and superlative adjectives, adjectives of quantity, and articles with common nouns competently
Emerging competency:
- recognize nouns as modifiers, participial adjectives, adverbs of cause/effect, and transition words
Mechanics:
- understand and use basic punctuation (periods, commas, question marks and quotation marks)
- understand and use colons, semi colons, exclamation marks, and hyphens
- identify and use capitalization, margins, and paragraph indentation
- use spelling rules and common spelling patterns
B. The Writing Process
- use prewriting skills, including brainstorming, group discussion of topics, narrowing a topic, and outlining
- revise and edit multiple drafts
- organize paragraphs correctly, using a thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting details, coherence and unity
- use correct format for papers
C. Rhetorical Styles
- competently use the following rhetorical styles in essays: descriptive/narrative; process, and comparison /contrast
D. Critical Thinking Skills
- use supplemental readings to obtain ideas and vocabulary for writing assignments
- avoid plagiarism
- distinguish between narration, description
- identify topics of equal class for comparison or contrast
- develop an awareness of audience and purpose
- distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information
Explanation of Satisfactory Essays
A satisfactory essay includes the following:
- selection of a topic worthy of adult communication
- originality with awareness of audience
- an introductory paragraph
- a clear thesis statement
- appropriate topic sentences
- adequate paragraph development
- a concluding paragraph
- unity and coherence
- seventy percent grammatical accuracy in these areas: verb tense, verb form, sentence form, agreement, word form, word choice, and word order, and punctuation; grammatical errors in other areas should not interfere with comprehensibility
- level and audience-appropriate vocabulary
- level-appropriate transitions
- sentence variety
In addition to the above general criteria, the following specific criteria will be used:
A satisfactory in-class essay
- is one and a half double-spaced pages or more
- includes development that is at least 70 percent as thorough as satisfactory out-of-class essays
A satisfactory out-of-class essay
- is the equivalent of one and a half typed double-spaced pages