Course Goals
course is designed to help English Language Learners (ELL) acquire intermediate-level writing and grammar skills in order to communicate more clearly and accurately in English.
Core Course Topics
Sentence variety
Verb tenses
Word order
Punctuation and mechanics
Transitions and connectors
Writing Process
Paragraph and short-essay organization
Topic sentences
Various modes
Vocabulary
Audience awareness
Academic integrity
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Write complete simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Use a a variety of verb tenses in the present, past, future, and perfect.
Formulate statements, negatives, imperatives, and questions using correct word order.
Avoid mechanical errors such as run-ons, comma splices, and fragments.
Use time markers and transitional expressions to link main ideas within paragraphs and paragraphs within short essays.
Plan, draft, revise, and proofread paragraphs and short essays.
Combine paragraphs to formulate a short essay with a clearly defined central idea, coherent organization, and supporting details and examples.
Formulate clear, narrowly-focused, and precisely-worded topic sentences with a controlling idea.
Differentiate among and write using various modes: narration; description; illustration; comparison/contrast; persuasion; opinion; cause/effect, and/or argumentative.
Integrate and understand new academic vocabulary.
Show evidence of ability to analyze and write for different audiences.
Practice citing sources while conducting research to avoid plagiarism.