ESL 21 - ESL: Written Communication II at Lord Fairfax Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2015-05-01
Provides instruction in writing at the low-intermediate level. Improves students' competence in grammatical patterns of written English. Requires practice in writing sentences and longer pieces of writing.
3-6 credits. 3-6 lecture hours. Total 3-6 hours per week.
3-6 credits
General Course Purpose
To give low-intermediate ESL students in Level 2 of the College ESL Program practice in writing to build fluency and accuracy.
Course Objectives
- Compose, revise, and edit writing employing simple sentence patterns effectively
- Apply basic mechanics to writing
- Use verb forms and verb tenses effectively
- Use nouns and articles effectively
Major Topics to be Included
- Application of the writing process, including
- pre-writing activities
- drafting
- reviewing, revising, and editing
- Basic mechanics of writing
- margins and indenting
- capitalization
- punctuation
- Basic verb system
- basic verb tenses and agreement
- base forms
- infinitives
- gerunds
- Basic noun system
- non-count, count, plurals
- articles
- pronouns