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ESL 024 - Elementary Writing
This course is for advanced beginners who can write basic sentences and have some knowledge of English sentence structure. The course covers basic grammatical structures and introduces students to simple paragraph writing as well as other types of writing needed in everyday life.
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Write simple, clear sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.
- Write simpler forms of compound and complex sentences with appropriate linking words.
- Write unified paragraphs of 8 to 10 sentences about people, places and events.
- Collect and organize information for use in sentence writing.
- Recognize and identify the basic parts of speech in writing using the correct dictionary abbreviations.
- Use the basic verb tenses to indicate present, past and future time.
- Use the common models and prepositions of time and location correctly.
- Develop some skill in recognizing and correcting common writing errors.
- Show improved ability to use correct word endings and articles.
Prerequisite: Placement test or recommendation of instructor.
Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in ESL 023 unless testing indicates otherwise.
3 hours lecture,
2 hours tutoring each week 4 credits