ELL 33 - ELL Summer Institute Writing Level 3

Credits: 5
Low-intermediate ELL students who want to focus on their fluency and accuracy in writing through project-based learning. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: ELL 2 , 20 , 21 , 22 or 28 ; and placement test; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
With guidance and support from peers and others, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
With guidance and support, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Participate in shared research and writing projects.

Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.