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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focus on basic reading skills, including skimming and scanning, differentiating main ideas from supporting details and examples, identifying common prefixes and suffixes, and figuring out the meaning of words from context clues. Dictionary exercises used to practice alphabetical order, syllabification, and word stress. Emphasis on reading short, adapted materials.
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4.00 Credits
Designed for writers whose first language is not English to develop their skills and confidence in writing for college. Focuses on the rhetorical structures of American College-level academic writing including essay structure, summaries, responses, and research writing. In addition, students work on grammar and sentence structure problems which occur more often in non-native writing and do peer editing and self-editing. Understanding complex assignments, synthesizing ideas, and strategies for test taking are also addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on topics relating to the Portland area, including Portland State University and academic life. Practice with questions, statements, and negatives in present, past, and future tenses; prepositions of place and direction, including giving and following directions; introduction of self and others; vocabulary related to academic life and day-to-day survival skills. Emphasis is on understanding and being understood in conversational situations.
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6.00 Credits
Focus on paragraph development, with work on introduction, body and conclusion for a short essay. Review of narrative and descriptive rhetorical styles and verb forms introduced in Level E. Introduction to process, comparison/ contrast, and classification as rhetorical styles; use of logical connectors for addition and contrast; outlining ideas for essay organization. An introduction to present perfect tense, modal auxiliaries, gerunds and infinitives, passive voice, real conditions, and comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. Emphasis on expanding single paragraph essays into short essays of three or more paragraphs using correct form, meaning and use of all new and reviewed structures.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on improving comprehension skills and reading speed. Introduction to locating main ideas, identifying word forms, using a dictionary to choose correct meaning, and inferring ideas in a passage. Emphasis is on reading both fiction and non-fiction.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on topics relating to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, including history, geography, and popular sites. Practice with question forms (including tag) in present, past, future, and present perfect tenses; short note-taking activities from taped lectures; planning and delivery of short oral presentation about areas in the Pacific Northwest. Emphasis on understanding and being understood in conversations and short prepared presentations.
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6.00 Credits
Review of rhetorical patterns and verb forms from previous levels, rules of essay formatting. Introduction to cause/effect, and argumentation as rhetorical styles; practice narrowing a topic, developing more effective introductions and conclusions; and use of transitions to subordinate/coordinate ideas. An introduction to past perfect and future perfect tenses, past modal auxiliaries, subordinate clauses, reported speech, parallel structure and relative clauses. Emphasis on expanding essays to five or more paragraphs while developing effective introductory and concluding paragraphs and transitional elements.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on developing critical reading skills and analyzing short original texts. Students are introduced to rhetorical patterns in texts, distinguishing fact from opinion in a passage, paraphrasing and summarizing points in a reading, and identifying features of longer works of fiction. Emphasis on reading short original passages of an academic nature and a short novel.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on issues relating to American culture/cross-cultural situations. Practice with note-taking from taped lectures; planning and participation for small group discussion, impromptu speaking and short individual presentation on topics related to American culture, using information gathered from interviews. Emphasis is on expanding note-taking and discussion skills in academic situations.
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3.00 Credits
A review of entire verb tense system and subordinate clauses; an introduction to reduced forms of subordinate clauses, perfective forms of gerunds and infinitives, unreal conditions, causative verbs, and adjective/noun complements. Emphasis is on incorporating correct usage in written assignments, including paraphrases and summaries.
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