Revised 12/2023
ESL 21 - Written Communication II (5 CR.)
Course Description
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. Credits are not applicable toward graduation. Lecture 5 hours per week.
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 Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Requires an ESL Placement Test recommendation for ESL Level 2.
Corequisites: ESL 22 and ESL 24; corequisites are not required to be taken in the same semester
Course Objectives
Goal 1 – Students will write a well-developed paragraph.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Compose, revise, and edit writing employing basic sentence patterns effectively
Goal 2 – Students will apply basic writing conventions and low-intermediate language writing skills.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- 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 strategies, such as brainstorming and planning
- drafting
- revising and editing
- Basic mechanics of writing
- margins and indenting
- capitalization
- punctuation
- Basic verb system
- basic verb tenses and agreement
- base forms
- infinitives
- gerunds
- adverbs of frequency
- Basic noun system
- non-count, count, plurals
- articles
- pronouns
- adjectives
- Understanding and following oral and written directions