ESOL 0354 Advanced Writing Syllabus
2. ESOL 0354 Statement of Purpose:
ESOL 0354, Advanced Writing seeks to prepare students for college compostion courses and academic writing in general by accomplsihing the following objectives:
a. Strengthening students' awareness of the basic notions of paragraph development, particularly the role of the topic sentence and the internal logical development of the paragraph.
b. Introducing to students the basic principles of multi-paragraph compositon, focusing especially on the role of the indroductory and concluding paragraphs, drafing an effective thesis statement, and organizing the compostion accodring to a clear logical pattern.
c. Honing students' sentence combination sklls, especially in the area of the strategy and techiques of subordination within complex sentences.
d. Increasing student awareness of the nature of the writing process, especially in the area of effective topic construction and in the necessity and techniques of revions and editing.
3. Course Outcomes:
After taking ESOL 0354, Advanced Writing, the student should:
a. be able to write a well-organized, substantially fluent, and grammatical essay of between 300 and 500 words.
b. be able to choose a topic and write an appropriately limited thesis statement about it.
c. be able to exhibit familiarity with the following modes of development of a thesis in academic writing: process description, narration, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause & effect.
d. be able to write a concise, accurate outine of his/her essay.
e. be able to exhibit familiarity with the main stages of the composing process: prewriting, composing, revising, proofreading.
b. be able to exhibit proficiency in logical devices and coherence markers, including connection words such as conjunctions, conjuntive adverbs and prepositions.
g. be able to detect and correct intra- and inter-sentential errors in their writing, assist others to do so in a peer revision process, exhibiting familiarity with basic rules of capitalization, punctuation, and proper academic essay format.
4 GRADE BREAKDOWN
Your grade will be calculated as follows:
Compositions - 40%; Exams - 10%; Daily Work and Journals - 10%; Practice Compositions - 10%; Midterm Composition - 10%; Final Composition - 20%
5. Textbooks: You are required to buy the following textbook for this course: Great Essays (Folse et al.) Second Edition
6. COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1: Unit 1
Week 2: Unit 1
Week 3: Unit 2
Week 4: Unit 2; In-Class Composition #1
Week 5: Revision of Comp #1; Unit 3
Week 6: Unit 3
Week 7: Unit 3; In-Class composition #2
Week 8: Revision of comp #2; Unit 4
Week 9: Midterm Essay; Unit 4
Week 10: Unit 4
Week 11: In-Class Composition #3; Unit 5
Week 12: Revision of Comp #3; Unit 5
Week 13: Unit 5
Week 14: In-Class Composition #4; Writing for THEA
Week 15: Revision of comp #4: THEA practice comp.
Week 16: FINAL EXAMS
Notice: Students who repeat a course for a third or more times may soon face significant tuition /fee increases at HCC and other Texas public colleges and universities. Please ask your instructor/couselor about opportunities for tutoring/other assistance prior to considering course withdrawal or if you are not receiving passing grades.
