Paragraph and Essay Composition for Students of English as a Second Language (Combined Course)
Curriculum guideline
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.
l. Generating and developing content from readings in EASL 0364.
a. selecting topics.
b. finding sources.
c. identifying relevant support material.
- incorporating support material (summarizing, paraphrasing, integrating, footnoting
source material).
2. Essay outlining techniques.
3. a. essay format: introduction, thesis/blueprint, body paragraphs with interlocking topic
sentences, conclusion with blueprint/thesis restatement, "clincher".
b. essay development: organizing, editing and revising.
4. a. language skills: grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, diction, tone.
b. proofreading techniques
Within relevant educational, employment, personal and social contexts, students will:
1. generate content appropriate for a range of academic writing tasks from the EASL 0364 corequisite.
2. focus and organize ideas into outlines for various types of compositions, including five-paragraph essays.
3. compose essays that follow accepted conventions for various academic purposes.
4. write comprehensibly, using increasingly correct and varied sentence structure, appropriate style
and precise language.
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.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Materials will be supplied.
Students may be required to purchase a text.
EASL 0274 or 0275 or instructor permission