ESL 1550 - Interm Academic Writing (FL)

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

English as a Second Language

Description:

Fulfills General Education Foreign Language requirement. Designed to help students gain intermediate writing skills in academic contexts, this course will focus on writing well-developed short paragraphs with sentence variety, fluency, intermediate vocabulary, and standard conventions of English. Students will be exposed to the writing process and will be expected to produce pre-writing activities, drafts, revisions, in addition to final drafts of academic writing. This course partially qualifies students to receive an Associate of Arts or Bachelor of Arts degree. Offered based on sufficient student need. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Generate ideas in a series of logically connected and grammatically effective sentences. 2. Restate events of something experienced or read. 3. Apply basic standard organizational patterns to write focused paragraphs with topic sentences and effective supporting sentences and transition words to give directions, definitions causes and effects and comparisons and contrasts or discuss ideas. 4. Appraise and proofread simple texts of sample and peer paragraphs. 5. Summarize and paraphrase simple texts from a variety of sources. Course fee required. Prerequisite: CaMLA-ELT Grammar score 11-15, or ESL 0350 (Grade B or higher).

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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