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Course Description
ISALC,
Lewis and Clark
College
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Class Hours MWF 10:20-11:20
Instructor - Michael D. Krauss
Phone: (w) 7315 (h) 331-0776
Office Hours - M-Th after mod or by appointment. (Any time I am in my
office, you may drop in.)
Phone: 768-7315
Email: krauss@lclark.edu
My Home Page: http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss
I. TEXTS:
Required:
Additional supplies:
II. COURSE DESCRIPTION/OBJECTIVES:
ESL 471 is designed to serve as a "bridge" for students, a transition from ESL courses to regular academic study. There will be reading and discussion in the class, but the focus will be on writing. You will complete writing assignments which will prepare you for undergraduate study at L.C. or another college or university.
Most essays will be written using the "process" approach. This will consist of three steps: 1) Exploring, Experimenting and Gathering Information; 2) Writing the Controlling Idea and Organizing/Developing Support; and 3) Writing, Revising and Editing. You will conference with your teacher and your peers during this process. You will have the opportunity to rewrite your essays after these conferences.
Your teacher will provide feedback on your writing by meeting with you and writing comments/corrections on your papers. Your teacher will also record comments onto audio tape for you to listen to. Therefore, you must have access to a tape player either on campus or at home. (Watzek library has tape players which you may use while in the library).
Some writing assignments will not follow the process model. For example, you will also have a chance to answer essay test questions or will be asked to respond to something you see, hear, or read within a limited amount of time. You will not have a chance to revise or edit this writing. This "one shot" writing within a limited time is also important because you will get similar writing assignments in the U.S. college classroom.
College and university professors expect their students to be able to produce well-formed writing in a variety of patterns and styles. These include: narration; description; process and cause/effect analysis; classification; comparison/contrast; critiques, definition and argumentation. Students should know how to "write-up" or "mark-up" their textbooks and how to organize and write a typical essay exam question. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in all these types of writing.
Your textbook provides a variety of exercises to help improve your grammar. Your teacher will provide additional grammar activities. An important part of your grammar study will be to analyze your own and your classmates' writing to find common errors and to practice correcting those errors. You will also work on developing more complex and varied sentence patterns in your writing.
III. Class Web Page
Writers need an audience. The Internet provides a wonderful opportunity to publish writing for a much wider audience than just your classmates and teacher. Each of you is invited to submit at least one (and I hope more) piece of writing to be published on the class Web page. This page will be on the Internet at http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/home.html
NOTE: Putting your work (or photo) on the Internet is voluntary. If you choose not to participate, that is fine. For those who do participate, I will ask you to sign a form giving permission to post your work and your photograph.
IV. GRADING:*
*Attendance is required for all ISALC classes. You are allowed only 5 absences in this class. (3 times late = 1 absence) If you miss more, your grade will be lowered. There will be no make-up exams or quizzes. Writing assignments which are turned in late will be graded down.
Created by: krauss@lclark.edu
Updated: 8/31/99