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1.00 Credits
This workshop is required of ENG 101 students whose Writing Sample score is less than 8 and who are enrolled in dedicated sections of College Composition I for former ESL students. The course provides guided practice in writing, revising and editing while offering additional instruction in two areas where proficiency is needed for communicative competence, but where non-native speakers' less extensive knowledge puts them at a disadvantage: grammar and culture. Students use a word processor to write and revise paragraphs and short essays. Co-requisite: ENG 101
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3.00 Credits
This course offers instruction in essay writing. While some attention is given to common grammatical problems, the course focuses primarily on the writing process. Students are taught pre-writing, composing, and editing techniques through practical demonstrations, inclass exercises, and analysis of readings in expository prose.
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3.00 Credits
This is a writing course that prepares students for the many technical writing tasks they will encounter in the workplace. It provides thorough coverage of the basic skills and common techniques of technical writing. Students will use a wide range of examples and model documents to help them develop the skills necessary to produce clear and effective reports. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students interested in learning the art and science of journalism, including how to write a feature, conduct an interview and edit columns. It covers fundamental concepts and techniques that are common to all the media, with practical experience in those techniques; analysis of what is produced in the media; techniques that are specific to print, radio or television news reporting, with experience in producing material in the three media; and some of the professional issues, standards and traditions that inform journalism as a career. Further, it introduces electronic resources that are now part of everyday life for a journalist. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3.00 Credits
Students will develop their skills as fiction, poetry and drama writers. They work at conceptualizing, composing, revising, and editing their work. They keep a writer's journal, discuss assigned readings, participate in peer group criticism, and meet for individual conferences with the instructor. Key goals are to increase students' awareness of the possibilities of expressive writing forms, styles, and themes, and also to increase awareness of the creative process in its many variations. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3.00 Credits
This course offers instruction in the techniques of effective business communication. Students practice formats and rhetorical strategies required in the business environment, including common types of letters, memoranda, and reports. Organization, tone, and diction are stressed, as are grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to ESL Writing is the writing component of a program designed for those students whose placement scores indicate limited or no knowledge of English. Students are prepared academically for ESL Level I courses. Students begin by writing simple sentences about their own lives and experience. As they study the organization of writing in English and concepts of main ideas and supporting details, they gradually move to writing multi-paragraph compositions. Corequisite: ESL 030, Introduction to Grammar for ESL Writing
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the beginning ESL student to writing in English using the process approach and self- and peer-editing strategies. Fluency and correctness are developed through the application of basic grammatical structures taught in ESL 031. Corequisite: ESL 031, Grammar for ESL Writing I
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3.00 Credits
ESL Writing II builds upon the writing skills acquired in Level I. Using the process approach to writing, this course focuses on developing topic sentences and expanding compositions through the use of supporting ideas and details. Editing skills are developed through the application of grammatical structures taught in Grammar for ESL Writing II. Corequisite: ESL 032, Grammar for ESL Writing II
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3.00 Credits
Provides intensive writing practice for low-intermediate ESL students. Both the writing process and the development of a clearly written product are addressed. Introduces multi-paragraph essays. Focuses on paragraph and essay development in a variety of rhetorical modes. Use of coherence markers, cohesive devices and sentence variety is emphasized. Intermediate grammatical structures taught in ESL 033 are applied to writing using self- and peerediting strategies. Corequisite: ESL 033, Grammar for ESL Writing III
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