Course
Description and Content
This is a
high- intermediate writing course for ESL students. Students
read and write paragraphs and short essays on academic topics
and acquire grammar, writing, and vocabulary skills for
college-level academic work. Concurrent enrollment in .5 unit of
ESL 312L is required.
In this class, we will practice:
1. interpreting reading passages on a variety of topics at a
high-intermediate level
2. paraphrasing and summarizing academic reading material
3. analyzing a writer’s purpose, viewpoint, and methods of
development
4. identifying an essay’s thesis, topic sentences, support,
and conclusion
5. analyzing essays for thesis development, unity, and coherence
6. using pre-writing techniques to organize a paragraph or essay
7. writing well-developed paragraphs and short analytical essays
8. using lexical and structural devices for rhetorical patterns
of organization
9. developing fluency and accuracy in writing a variety of
sentence types
10.analyzing chunks of words in sentences for complex sentence
parts
11.using concrete/abstract and literal/figurative language
effectively
12.revising drafts to improve unity, coherence, and logical flow
of ideas
13.editing to improve grammar, syntax, and word usage
14.proofreading for spelling and mechanical errors.
VISION
FOR THE
FUTURE
