XESW 0516F ESL College Transition Writing and Grammar Level F

Low-Advanced to Advanced. This course focuses on advanced grammar development and essay writing to help students of English transition to an institute of higher learning in order to work on a degree or certification in a professional field.

Credits

10 hours

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will write a variety of well-supported essays (classification-definition, problem-solution or persuasive) and a problem-solution research paper about academic topics with a variety of sentence types (simple, compound, and complex) with few grammatical or spelling errors. Students will recognize recurring errors in their writing and write with the composition skills, appropriate rhetoric, fluency, and vocabulary necessary to communicate authentic academic writing tasks to a specialized audience. Students will also gain familiarity with various research tools and how to cite research in an academic context.