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ESW 151
Grammatical Writing
This course will give students the opportunity to improve their
writing of developmental paragraphs and short essays, in addition
to increasing the level of grammatical accuracy and complexity in
these writings. Using the writing process approach, students will
develop their ability to revise and edit their writing for coherence,
cohesion, and unity. Accuracy of written language will be addressed
through targeted review and practice of grammatical structures,
punctuation rules, and vocabulary that commonly pose challenges
to ESL students. Specifically, the course will work within a general
academic essay structure to teach the writing of strong, arguable
thesis statements and well-developed paragraphs. ESW 151 is taken
concurrently with ESR 152. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test
ESR 152
Academic Reading
The goal of this course is to improve a student’s comprehension
of the material and begin to develop a critical engagement with
the author’s arguments. The course teaches students the necessary
skills of active, critical reading. In particular, students are
taught to identify the author’s purpose and point of view and
to understand how thesis and themes are developed, in order that
they might react to the work with critical understanding. The curriculum
incorporates a wide variety of texts, among which are readings from
periodicals, short stories, poetry, and a novel. While the focus
of the course is on academic reading, the course will integrate
with it the development of writing skills through student reaction
journals and essay exams. ESR 152 is taken concurrently with ESW
151. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test
ESW 215
Introduction to Academic Writing
As a bridge to College Composition, students have the opportunity
to practice writing fully developed essays of all types, utilizing
topics from their potential fields of study. The focus of the course
is placed on the content and style of writing with occasional attention
given to common troublespots regarding mechanics of composition.
Specifically, the course works within a general academic essay structure
to teach the writing of strong, arguable thesis statements and well-developed
essays of various rhetorical styles, such as narrative, descriptive,
comparison/contrast, cause/effect, classification, and argumentative.
ESW 215 is taken concurrently with ESR 215.
Fall and Spring.
Prerequisites: ESL Placement Test and/or successful completion
of ESW 151 and ESR 152.
ESR 215
Reading in the Disciplines
In this course, students will develop their reading fluency in English
by working with classic and contemporary English-language essays,
both fiction and nonfiction. One goal of the course is to move students,
as readers, beyond comprehension of the material, its ideas, and
challenging vocabulary to a critical analysis, interpretation, and
evaluation of each author’s work. Another goal is to expose
the student to a variety of rhetorical styles (modes of writing)
in a number of academic disciplines that college students typically
encounter as undergraduates. ESR 215 is taken concurrently with
ESW 215. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisites: ESL Placement Test and/or successful completion
of ESW 151 and ESR 152.
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