Course

Composition for Upper Intermediate Students of English as a Second Language (Combined Course)

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
English as a Second Language
Course Code
EASL 0274
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15
Max Class Size
20
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course with its corequisite EASL 0264 is the second in a series of combined reading and writing courses for students who wish to upgrade their writing and reading in order to continue their education or improve employment opportunities. It is designed for students who have some composition experience and intermediate listening and speaking skills. This course will mainly provide practice in writing different types of expository paragraphs and short compositions. Students will use ideas from the readings in EASL 0264 to generate ideas into increasingly longer compositions and practice organizing, editing and revising. Exercises will help students clarify and elaborate supporting points, use grammar, sentence structure and vocabulary accurately, and proofread for errors.
Course Content
  1. Generating content

a)           Techniques such as brainstorming

b)           Sources, such as personal experience, human observation, and articles or texts explored in EASL 0264.

 

  1. Outlining techniques

a)          Topic selection

b)           Rhetorical patterns

c)            Rough drafting

d)           Outlining

 

3.             a)            Paragraph/composition format: introduction, topic sentence, main supporting points, supporting details, transitions, conclusions, etc.

b)               Paragraph/composition development: editing and revising.

 

4.             a)            Language skills: grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, vocabulary   b)            Proofreading techniques.

Learning Activities

The instructor will facilitate, observe and evaluate students' participation in writing activities.  Whole and small group instruction will be combined with individual assistance and student directed learning.  Students will participate in the setting of goals by identifying their communicative and language development needs, and will participate in the selection of learning activities.

Means of Assessment

This course is a college preparatory course and students will be marked on a MASTERY basis.  Mastery will be granted to students who achieve over 70% on a series of in-class and out-of-class assessments.

Learning Outcomes

Within relevant educational, employment, personal and social context, students will:

1       generate content appropriate for a range of primarily academic writing tasks from the EASL 0264 reading corequisite.

2       focus and organize ideas into outlines for various types of paragraphs, such as cause/effect, comparison/contrast.

3       compose increasingly longer paragraphs, or short compositions of more than one paragraph, that make, support and logically develop a single point.

4       write comprehensibly.

Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

Materials will be supplied.

Students may be required to purchase a text.

Requisites

Prerequisites

EASL 0175 or 0174 or instructor permission

Corequisites

EASL 0264

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

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Institution Transfer Details for EASL 0274
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025