ELL 034 - Intermediate Writing I

Institution:

Delaware County Community College

Subject:

Description:

This course aims at the development of intermediate writing skills following ELL 024 (Elementary Writing). Students are introduced to a variety of strategies that require synthesis and analysis in writing cohesive academic paragraphs and simple essays. Diverse strategies and techniques will prepare students for higher level ELL and regular academic English classes. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Generate, collect, and organize ideas using several pre-writing strategies including outlining; Select and evaluate main ideas and supporting details for the paragraphs; Revise drafts in the writing process; Compose a well-structured paragraph and short essays using multiple paragraphs; Use transitional and logical connectors to link the ideas in paragraphs; Use description, narration, explanation, and illustration in writing; Apply elements of subordination to combine short sentences and emphasize important ideas in writing; Construct compound and complex sentences with correct capitalization, punctuation, and structure; Employ most of the present, past, and future tenses, modals, gerunds, pronouns, and infinitives; Demonstrate editing skills.

Credits:

4.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

ELL 024 or Appropriate Placement Test Scores

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

08/27/2012 - 08/23/2024 09/01/2006 - 01/03/2013 

Institution Website:

www.dccc.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 359-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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