Academic C
Writing
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Course Overview
Course Description
This course helps prepare students for research-based writing. Students participate in writing conferences, peer review, and other activities to help enhance their writing processes and products.
Course Emphasis
- Timed Writing - 35%
- Drafted Writing - 35%
- Listening - 15%
- Reading - 15%
Course Books and Materials
TBD
Course Learning Outcomes
- Writes level-appropriate drafted and timed text
- Narrates and describes in all major time frames accurately with some control of aspect
- Writes multiple paragraph length text
- Writes introductory paragraphs for multi-paragraph compositions
- Writes effective thesis statements with clear controlling ideas
- Writes effective topic sentences for paragraphs
- Writes logically organized paragraphs
- Reliably supports ideas with facts, examples, and reasons
- Writes effective concluding sentences in paragraphs
- Uses a variety of cohesive devices
- Ends multi-paragraph compositions with an appropriate conclusion
- Adapts language to fit the audience material, context, and time constraints
- Uses target grammar to respond to a prompt with time constraints and/or preparation time
- Synthesizes information from written and spoken sources
- Paraphrases sources without plagiarizing
- Cites sources using appropriate in-text formatting methods
- Engages in level-appropriate tasks and functions using writing strategies and target grammar
- Uses pre-writing to structure texts
- Reads and rereads texts to identify and correct writing and grammar errors
- Responds to teacher, tutor, and peer feedback on both content and accuracy
- Responds appropriately to unanticipated complications with familiar tasks and topics
- Supports opinions and hypothesizes with some control of aspect
- Uses grammar to connect ideas across paragraphs
- Uses circumlocution to clarify meaning and maintain fluency
- Incorporates a variety of high frequency academic vocabulary in writing
- Uses grammar strategies to change the meaning and/or part of speech of target vocabulary
- Understands high frequency academic vocabulary in writing prompts
- Uses predictable discourse markers to connect ideas
Assessments and Learning Experiences
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