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Fall 2023
May 13, 2024
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ESLS 023 - ACADEMIC ENGL READ/WRITE I
Prerequisite: Placement test results within the designated range. Academic English Reading and Writing Level I is the first of a five-part series of ESL courses designed to prepare students for reading and writing at the college level. The course emphasizes academic vocabulary development, writing with clarity and organization, and the development of academic reading skills, such as learning vocabulary in context and critical thinking, dictionary use. Students at Level I write simple descriptive, expository, and argumentative paragraphs with a focus on sentence level accuracy, parts of speech, the development of topic sentences, and standard punctuation. Level I students practice reading both intensively for analysis and extensively at a high beginning level. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.
6.000 Credit hours
6.000 Lecture hours
0.000 Lab hours

Levels: Academic
Schedule Types: Lecture

Liberal and Fine Arts Division
Communication and Languages Department

Course Attributes:
Developmental

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