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.
- Generating content
a) Techniques such as brainstorming
b) Sources, such as personal experience, human observation, and articles or texts explored in EASL 0264.
- 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.
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.
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 0175 or 0174 or instructor permission
EASL 0375 or 0374