EAP 0095 English for Academic Purposes: Advanced College Writing and Grammar
Course Information
| Course Number | EAP 0095 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | English for Academic Purposes: Advanced College Writing and Grammar |
| Description | EAP 0095 English for Academic Purposes: Advanced College Writing and Grammar is equivalent to ENGL 0090 for multilingual students who speak English as a Second Language. This course offers instruction in complex sentence structure and strategies for learning and using vocabulary from the Academic Word List, within the context of writing academic essays, participating in discussions, and giving academic presentations. Students will develop their narrative, expository, and argument writing skills using a writing process that includes pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing final drafts for proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar. In addition, students will analyze and practice strategies for interacting effectively with their instructors and classmates in class and on campus. (Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in either ENGL 0080 or EAP 0085, or determination of the EAP coordinator using multiple assessment measures). |
| Total Credits | 4 |
| Total Hours | 64 |
| Instruction Type | Credits and Hours |
|---|---|
| Individualized | 4 Credits, 64 Hours |
Pre/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in either ENGL 0080 or EAP 0085, or determination of the EAP coordinator using multiple assessment measures.
Institutional Core Competencies
- Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
- Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
- Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.
Course Competencies
- Observe, analyze and practice the communication strategies and language need to interact effectively with instructors in speech and writing.
- Observe, analyze, and practice the communication strategies needed to participate in classroom discussions.
- Recognize, use and fix common errors with simple, compound, and complex sentence structure.
- Review paragraph structure and expand upon it to develop a knowledge of essay structure.
- Identify, analyze and adopt rhetorical patterns of essay organization and oral presentations.
- Study, practice and apply common academic vocabulary and phrases associated with each type of rhetorical essay pattern.
- Learn, practice and utilize syntactic structures associated with particular writing genres/rhetorical patterns.
- Observe, analyze, and practice the communication strategies and language needed to participate in an experiment or lab.
- Identify and use structures and processes for composing essays and presentation drafts .
- Study, analyze, and adopt effective verbal and non-verbal techniques for delivering an oral presentation using slides.
- Review, practice, and apply punctuation and spelling rules.
- Understand the Western definition of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
SCC Accessibility Statement
South Central College strives to make all learning experiences as accessible as possible. If you have a disability and need accommodations for access to this class, contact the Academic Support Center to request and discuss accommodations.
North Mankato: Room B-132, (507) 389-7222; Faribault: Room A-116, (507) 332-7222.
Additional information and forms can be found at: southcentral.edu/disability
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