ELL 0850 - Elements of College Writing
Credits: 4
Catalog Description
This is the developmental writing course for non-native speakers of academic English. Entry into the course is based on the recommended placement score on the Accuplacer ESL test. Students can expect to develop the skills, vocabulary, and habits necessary for success in ENGL 1120 or ENGL 1121 , including topic selection and brainstorming; research, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing various essay types; and using thesis statements and evidence to establish a credible academic tone. Students will read and analyze their own and others’ writing to help develop fluency and rhetorical awareness. Students will practice using correct English sentence grammar and punctuation, paragraph structure, and various types of essay structures through handwriting and typewriting activities. In addition, students will also gain computer literacy skills by using computers to create and save documents, take photos using smartphones and upload and add files to D2L, use online Office365 apps including OneDrive and Word, write emails, search the internet, and use online library research tools and databases.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): Achievement of the recommended minimum score on the Accuplacer ESL reading test
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better) or Corequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): ELL 0870
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: An ability to understand written and oral instructions in English. Completion of Adult Basic Education literacy or academic English coursework in the U.S. or another country is highly recommended. INTS 1000 is also recommended to be taken concurrently. Students are encouraged to meet with an advisor for recommended course pairings.
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Demonstrate proficiency with academic written English.
- Understand and practice writing as a process including planning, drafting, revising, and editing/proofreading.
- Understand, recognize, and develop specific essay components, particularly explicit topic sentences, explicit thesis statements, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions.
- Demonstrate the use of personal experience and source-based ideas as evidence to support a thesis.
- Write for specific audiences and purposes, paying attention to diction, tone, and sentence style.
- Demonstrate increased analytical thinking in writing through well-developed body paragraphs.
- Identify personal writing strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan for improvement.
- Work cooperatively with fellow students to improve writing.
- Read and respond to student texts with increased confidence and analytical ability.
- Demonstrate ability to access information from a variety of sources.
- Demonstrate academic integrity by citing sources appropriately.
- Understand and use MLA document formatting guidelines.
- Demonstrate improved editing strategies and abilities to ensure complete and correct sentences, sentence variety, and punctuation effectiveness and correctness.
- Use standard academic English resources (dictionary and MLA style manual) effectively throughout the writing process.
- Use computer technology effectively throughout the writing process.
- Use campus resources necessary for academic success, including the Academic Support Center and the Library.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Audience awareness: writing for readers in the United States in a variety of settings
- Writing as a way to discover, clarify, and communicate ideas
- Writing terms such as sentence, paragraph, essay, punctuation, evidence, fact, opinion, draft, cause, effect, comparison, contrast, etc.
- The writing process: inventing, planning, drafting, revising, evaluating, editing, and proofreading
- Critical thinking and reading: identifying main ideas and structure; analyzing and evaluating a writer’s purpose, language, audience, context, and evidence
- Techniques for varying writing so that it is appropriate for a variety of purposes and audiences (point of view, style, diction, tone)
- Conventions of correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics, including:
- Sentence structure (especially compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences)
- Sentence combining
- Correcting sentence errors: fragments, run-ons, and comma splices
- Punctuating and integrating quotations
- Apostrophe, semicolon, colon, and the dash
- Using a dictionary (including idioms)
- Other grammar issues: e.g., dangling modifiers, active vs. passive voice, and gerunds
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course
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