Delaware County Community College

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ESL 034 - Intermediate Writing I

This course is a continuation of Elementary Writing (ESL 024). Students write longer paragraphs and short essays using more advanced writing strategies such as narration illustration and analysis. Frequent in-class writing and out of class assignments help prepare students for future academic writing in non-ESL classes.

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Write compound and complex sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.
  • Use perfect tenses, real conditionals, models, passive constructions, gerunds and infinitives.
  • Use consistent verb tenses, pronouns and transitional connectors to link ideas.
  • Use subordination to combine short sentences and to emphasize important ideas.
  • Write short essays of 300 words using several well-supported paragraphs.
  • Use description, narration, explanation and comparison.
  • Generate and organize ideas using a number of pre-writing strategies.
  • Take effective notes showing main ideas and important details.
  • Demonstrate skill in revision and process writing in a portfolio of written work.

Prerequisite: Placement test, Elementary Writing (ESL 024) or recommendation of instructor.

Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in Intermediate Grammar I (ESL 033) unless testing indicates otherwise.

3 hours lecture,
2 hours tutoring each week 4 credits

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