ESL 093 High Intermediate Writing

2 credit hours

This course teaches students how to organize written communications that go beyond the sentence and paragraph level. In addition to practicing previously learned forms of expression, such as simple description and narratives, students begin to organize paragraphs in the larger context of complete compositions. Students will learn to create outlines for their compositions and in doing so will begin to work with the essential components of essays: introduction, body, and conclusion. It is at this point that students study and begin to employ topic sentences at both the paragraph and larger essay level (introduction) and learn to develop their ideas as parts of a cohesive whole.