COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number: ESL 2D Division: ESL and Foreign Languages

Course Title: Beginning Writing for the Non-Native English Speaker

Hours Lecture: 3 Hours Lab: 0 Weeks: 18 Units: 0

Credit Status:

AA/AS: Non-Degree: Certificate: NonCredit: X

Transfer Code: UC: CSU: None: X

Prerequisite or Corequisite: None

Catalog Description:

This course is designed to acquaint the non-native speaker of English with the basic skills required to develop acceptable college and job level writing techniques in English. Prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, and editing are emphasized to promote writing skills.

Needs/Justifications/Goals:

This course is needed to help students with limited knowledge of English to acquire and develop writing skills.

Course Outline Prepared by:

Saul Panski Date: September 14, 2005

Curriculum Committee Chair: Division Chair:

Saul Panski Shemiran Lazar

SENATE APPROVAL DATE: 11/1/05 BOARD APPROVAL DATE: 11/22/05

STATE APPROVAL DATE: March 13, 2006

TOP NO. 4930.80 USOE NO. 00000000 CLASSIFICATION T5/55001(A)(1)(C2)

CAN NO. N/A SAM CODE E

Compton Community College September 14, 2005

Course Outline for ESL 2D

Beginning Writing for the Non-Native English Speaker

I. Catalog Description:

ESL 2C, Beginning Writing for the Non-Native English Speaker 0 Units

This course is designed to acquaint the non-native speaker of English with the basic skills required to develop acceptable college and job level writing techniques in English. Prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, and editing are emphasized to promote writing skills.

II. Expected Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to perform the following activities with 70% accuracy.

A. Write sentences using correct English sentence patterns.

B. Practice pre-writing activities to generate ideas for writing a paragraph.

C. Develop a topic sentence to introduce the subject of the paragraph.

D. Write a paragraph using the correct format.

E. Demonstrate knowledge of spelling and punctuation rules in writing short

paragraphs.

F. Effectively utilize linking words and phrases in a logical, sequential order to connect supporting ideas in a paragraph.

III. Course Content

A. Writing--Introduction

1. Writing about yourself

2. Answering questions about yourself

3. Studying complete sentences

4. Simple and compound sentences

5. Sentence patterns

6. Paragraph forms

7. Writing about what you like to do

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B. Writing about your family and friends

1. Getting ready to write

2. Brainstorming and clustering

3. Writing about a family member

4. Writing about a friend

C. Writing about daily activities

1. Paragraph practice

2. Practicing time and order

D. Writing about lifestyles

1. Frequency adverbs

2. Parts of a paragraph

3. Topic sentences

4. Using graphs

E.  Writing about people

1. Using adjectives

2. Using a time line

3. Writing from a fact sheet

F. Writing about places

1. Prepositions of place

2. Describing places

G. Writing descriptions

1. Order forms

2. Thank you notes

3. Clothes

4. Cars

H. Writing instructions

1. A recipe

2. Helpful hints

3. First aid instructions

4. Time order signal words

5. How to do something

I. Writing about past events

1. Organize by time

2. Writing memories

3. Your autobiography

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IV. Methods of Presentation

A. Lecture

B. Small group activities

C.  Workbook and writing activities

D. Quizzes

V. Assignments and Methods of Evaluation:

A.  Class participation

B.  Sentence preparation and evaluation

C.  Paragraph preparation and evaluation

D.  Evaluation of student portfolio of writings

VI. Textbook(s):

Blanchard, Ken and Root, Christine. Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text.

White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman Pub. 1998.