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3.00 Credits
Designed forlow intermediate ESOL students. Course emphasizes using standard English grammar in writing short essays. Study of perfect tenses, passive voice, gerunds and infi nitives. Introduction to clauses. Continued emphasis on writing compound sentences and introduction to complex sentence structures with appropriate conjunctions, transitional expressions, and punctuation. Continued practice in paragraph development and longer academic compositions. Exposure to and practice with different modes of writing. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in ESOL 0381 or placement in the course by the ESOL Assessment. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
Designed for highintermediate ESOL students. Verb tense review. Continued study of the perfect tenses, passive voice, modal auxiliaries. Emphasis on adjective, phrasal verbs and adverb clauses. Introduction to conditionals. Further practice in formal essay writing with continued exposure to different modes of writing. Focus on error correction, paraphrasing, and editing. Introduction to using the library to locate and collect resource materials. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in ESOL 0382 or placement in the course by the ESOL Assessment. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
Designed for advanced ESOLstudents. This exit-level course prepares students for English 1301, other college writing and writing in the workplace. Continued study of clauses and introduction of reduced forms. Practice in writing more sophisticated formal essays and selected modes of writing, including the persuasive mode. Instruction on introduction to the research paper. This course is not for college- level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in ESOL 0383 or placement in the course by the ESOL Assessment. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
This course isdesigned to help ESOL students acquire essential skills needed for college or in the workplace. Students learn to use the library and the internet to locate appropriate materials, to take notes from those materials, and to write either a research paper or a workplace report with documentation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: C or better in ESOL 0383 and ESOL 0363. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
Business Communications for Non-Native Speakers is a communications course for non- native speakers of English. The course occurs in a simulated offi ce setting in which students become fellow employees of a small business specializing in consulting. Using a hands-on approach, students work through various business procedures, such as conducting meetings and taking minutes, creating press releases, writing white papers, and showcasing new products. This course presents business grammar and vocabulary to non-native speakers and requires students to apply this knowledge to reading, writing, and speaking the language of business English. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: ESOL Assessment at the level of high intermediate or above in writing/grammar and reading/ vocabulary or a grade of C or higher in ESOL 0382, ESOL 0383, ESOL 0384, ESOL 0362, ESOL 0363, or ESOL 0364 or permission of the ESOL department. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
An accelerated grammar coursetailored to correct the individual grammatical errors of ESOL students. The class will consist of diagnostics, whole group discussion of problematic grammatical and syntactical structures, and an individualized plan of instruction and study for each student based on his/her individual needs. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable for up to six credit hours. Prerequisites: ESOL 0382 with a minimum grade of C or placement by ESOL Assessment. Course Type: D
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3.00 Credits
A study ofthe principles of an effective professional or technical style, stressing clarity, exactness, and readability. Topics include a review of grammar and punctuation, an introduction to copy editing, and editing and revision skills. Skills: E Prerequisites: ENGL 1301. Course Type: W
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3.00 Credits
Acourse focused on business correspondence delivered through common media (business letters, memos, e-mail, and reports), across organizational hierarchies (work associates at lower, same, and higher organizational levels), and based in typical situations (good news, bad news, policy and schedule changes, information requests, reprimands, rationales, denials, and other tricky business-communication situations). Emphasizes clear, tactful, succinct, direct, well-structured writing that gets the job done. Skills: E Prerequisites: Basic computer familiarity and typing skills. Course Type: W
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3.00 Credits
Focusing ongraphics commonly required of technical writers, this course begins with rhetorical principles relating to graphic design; challenges students to envision graphics for plain text; introduces software such as Photoshop for editing graphics; including techniques for importing and positioning graphics into desktop publishing software such as FrameMaker and Word; introduces editing existing hardware vector graphics; provides practice creating relatively simple graphics such as geometrical, conceptual, and fl owchart-type graphics using applications such as CorelDraw, Illustrator, or AutoCAD; and provides a thorough introduction to scalable vector graphics (SVG). Skills: E Prerequisites: Strong computer skills. Course Type: W
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3.00 Credits
A study of two importantforms of the proposal: the grant proposal and the new-business plan (also known as business "prospectus"). Students learn howto fi nd grants, analyze their requirements, and then write a successful grant proposal. Students also plan a business startup, do funding and marketing research for it, and then write a business plan promoting the startup to potential investors. Skills: E Prerequisites: Strong writing and computer skills. Course Type: W
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