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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