H S 025 - College Prep Writing 2

5 Credits

Designed for students who have serious nonnative grammar error patterns that interfere with clear written communication. Intended for students in the ELL high school diploma program. Focuses on correctly formatting one paragraph responses and on creating meaningful sentences with clear syntax. Also focuses on learning to construct basic verb forms and verb tenses and using proper capitalization and basic end punctuation. Emphasis on developing grammar and writing skills at the sentence level: verb construction and verb tense, word order, word choice and building vocabulary.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered

Designed to Serve Students enrolled in the ELL high school completion program.
Active Date 2015-04-28

Grading System Credit/Non-Credit
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Worksite 0 Clinical 0 Other 0
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
Course Outline
Rhetorical issues: understanding assignments, formatting paragraphs, invention strategies, topic sentences, supporting details, organization, and developing ideas.
Language issues: clear syntax, coordination/subordination, constructing basic verb forms and tenses correctly, editing for word choice problems, using basic capitalization and basic end punctuation.

Student Learning Outcomes
Common outcomes: Produce multi-paragraph responses to assignments on specific topics.

Develop paragraphs with clear focus, support and organization.

Effectively analyze and follow an instructor’s assignments/homework directions.

Construct effective sentences with independent and dependent clauses.

Refine use of coordination and subordination so that connections/conjunctions are logical.

Edit for sentence boundary problems, specifically related to run-ons and sentence fragments.

Construct a variety of effective sentences using phrases and clauses correctly.

Edit effectively for errors with coordination and subordination.

Edit effectively for verb tense errors and refine use of verb tense, specifically related to more complex verb phrases and irregular verb

Edit for word choice problems, specifically those related to vocabulary and parts of speech confusion