ESOL 0373 / ENGLC 3007301     ESOL Writing III

Course Description:  This course continues to develop English-language students’ writing skills for personal, academic and professional purposes. Students use more sophisticated grammar structures in writing well-developed paragraphs using process writing techniques.  This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite: ESOL 0372 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes   Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.     Write simple, compound, and complex sentences.  

2.     Use pre-writing techniques to generate and organize ideas.                                                                       

3.     Write paragraphs and short (three-four paragraph) essays that are well organized and developed with adequate support in a variety of rhetorical modes such as comparison/contrast, definition/example, and opinion.

4.     Revise writing for content and organization.

5.     Edit for vocabulary, sentence structure, and paragraph form.