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.
- Personal letters, notes, application forms,
a) Format
b) Style
- Narration, description, summarizing, paraphrasing
- Paragraphs
a) Paragraph preparation: generating ideas, choosing topics
b) Paragraph format: topic sentence, support, transitions
c) Paragraph development: editing and revising
4. a) Language skills: grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, vocabulary
b) Proofreading techniques
Within relevant educational, employment, personal and social contexts, students will:
- complete functional writing tasks to meet personal needs, and to prepare for formal composition assignments.
- write loosely paragraphed forms, such as accounts of experience or events, biographical descriptions or summaries of material from the EASL 0164 reading corequisite
- compose short paragraphs that make and support a simple point
- write comprehensibly.
The 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