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Dec 08, 2024
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ESOL 0051 - Grammar and Writing V Credits: 5 Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None Course Description: This course focuses on developing advanced English writing skills. Essays are written through drafts and revisions, using a focus on advanced grammar and sentence structures with academic English. Special emphasis is placed on increasing independent editing skills to improve readiness for college writing. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESOL 0051 OR completion of ESOL 0041 with a grade of “C” or higher. Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- The Writing Process
- 2-4 page multiple draft essays
- Avoiding plagiarism - cultural implications
- Using purpose and audience to guide writing choices
- Selection of examples and details
- Using/giving feedback for revision
- Independent editing skills and strategies
- Individual strengths and weaknesses in writing
- Language Use
- Resources for increased idiomatic and academic word choices
- Adjective, noun and adverb clauses
- Advanced connectors
- Language for direct and indirect reported speech
- Phrasal verbs
- Advanced article usage
- Advanced preposition usage
- Subject-verb agreement in embedded clauses and complex sentences
- When to use gerunds and infinitives
- Active and passive verbs
- Comma splices, run-ons, fragments
- Mechanics
- Advanced punctuation rules
- Complex sentence structures
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- produce correct examples of grammar and sentence structures in the context of short essays.
- edit own writing to correct errors with grammar and sentence structures with increasing independence.
- write with academic, sophisticated, idiomatic, and native-like expressions.
- produce 2-4 page essays with an introduction, unified and cohesive body paragraphs, and a conclusion through a draft and revision process.
- select examples and details that are relevant and strong in supporting the main ideas in an essay.
- identify strengths and weaknesses in own writing and strategies for self-improvement through peer feedback and self-reflection.
- offer constructive feedback to other students on how to improve their writing.
- identify plagiarism and explain why it is unacceptable.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) None Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10) None
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