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College Catalog 2018-2019 
    
College Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BAST 074 - ELA (English Language Acquisition) Beginning Writing


Credits 5
This course will offer instruction for adult non-native speakers of English to improve their skills in writing. Intended for students whose writing skill was assessed at the Beginning Foundation level.
Course Outcomes

  1. Punctuate correctly using periods, exclamation points, question marks, apostrophes, and commas.
  2. Add detail and complexity to sentences with adverbs of frequency, adjectives and adverb phrases.
  3. Produce compound sentences.
  4. Put simple sentences into standard paragraph format.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of the writing process by editing their own and classmates’ writing, using technology as an aid as appropriate.