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ESOL 0351 Spring 2005

Syllabus

Instructor: RoseMary Schouten

Office Phone: 713 718 7750

Email: rmschouten@hotmail.com

Office Hours:  Before or after class or by appointment

COURSE DESCRIPTION  From the HCCS catalog:

This course concentrates on the development of writing skills using controlled composition and production of the five -paragraph essay.

  INTENSIVE ENGLISH WRITING PROGRAM: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 

The Intensive English Program offers a sequence of four ESL writing courses, ESOL 0343, 0327, 0351 and 0354, which range from beginning to advanced writing.  The overall purpose of the Intensive English Writing Program is fourfold:

• To teach students the basis principles of composition organization and structure.
• To introduce to students the notion of writing as a complex process of interrelated stages of prewriting, drafting, and revision.
• To strengthen students’ grasp of sentences construction and sentence combining.
• To raise students’ awareness of the need to revise and improve their writing.

ESOL 0351, ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

  This course seeks to prepare students for continuation into ESOL 0354 and ultimately for college composition courses and academic writing in general by accomplishing the following objectives:

• 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.
• Introducing to students’ principles of the multi-paragraph composition, focusing especially on the role of the introductory and concluding paragraphs, drafting an effective thesis statement, and organizing the composition according to a clear logical pattern.
• Improving students’ sentence combination skills, especially in the area of the strategy and the techniques of coordination within compound sentences and within simple complex sentences.
• Increasing students’ awareness of the nature of the writing process, especially in the area of effective topic construction and in the necessity and techniques of revising and editing. 

GRADE BREAKDOWN:

Paragraph        10%                             100-90             A

Essays             65%                               89-80              B

Journal             5%                                79-70              C

Final Essay      20%                          less than 70     IP or F

         Total:    100%

TEXTBOOKS

You are required to buy the following textbook for this course:

Introduction to Academic Writing (second edition) 

CLASS POLICIES 

ATTENDANCE:  HCCS policy will be enforced.  Refer to the notice you signed on the first day of class. 

TARDINESS: Repeated tardiness will be counted as an absence. 

WITHDRAWALS:  The last day for students to withdraw from a class with a grade of “W” is September 10. 

MAKEUP ESSAYS/LATE JOURNALS:   There will be no makeup essays except in extraordinary circumstances.  For each late journal entry you will loose 3 points.  For each missing journal entry you will lose 5 points.     

ACADEMIC HONESTY/CHEATING:  Any form of copying, cheating, or plagiarism will result in a 0 for the assignment.  See HCCS handbook for further information. 

STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:  Students with a learning or a physical disability which might affect their performance in class should contact the HCCS disabilities counselor, Dr. Becky Hauri at 713 718-7907, FAX 713 718-7781. 

SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICY:  Sexual harassment in any form is not tolerated at HCCS.  See the HCCS Student Handbook for further information. 

ESOL 0351 COURSE SCHEDULE

Note:  this schedule is approximate; I may make changes to it if necessary.

WEEK                                    TOPICS

1.                    Unit 1: Writing about People and Journal #1
2.                    Unit 4:  Paragraph Organization and Journals 2 and 3
3.                    Unit 5: More about Paragraph organization, Journals 4 and 5, and In Class Paragraph
4.                    Unit 6: Essay Organization and Journals 6 and 7
5.                    Unit 6: continued and Journals 8 and 9
6.                    Unit 2: Narration and Journals 10 and 11
7.                    Unit 2: continued, Journals 12 and 13, and In Class  Essay #1
8.                    Unit 3: Description and Journals 14 and 15
9.                    Unit 3: continued, Journals 16 and 17, and In Class Essay #2
10.                    Unit 7: Logical Division of Ideas and Journals 18 and 19
11.                    Unit 7: continued, Journals 20 and 21, and In Class Essay #3
12.                    Unit 8: Supporting an Opinion and Journals 22 and 23
13.                    Unit 8: Journals 24 and 25, and In Class Essay #4
14.                    Unit 9: Comparison/Contrast and Journals 26 and 27
15.                    Unit 9: continued, Journals 28 and 29, and In Class Essay #5
16.                    Final Exams Week

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