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Jun 25, 2024
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OPIE D803 - Advanced Grammar
Through this OPIE part-time level elective class, students will increase their ability to use a variety of grammatical patterns and structures to express original ideas, to edit written text, and to paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information and ideas in order to perform extended academic tasks orally and in writing.
Requisites: This is a developmental course
PERMISSION REQUIRED or
Paper TOEFL: 500 minimum
IBT: 62 minimum
Composition Exam: 45 minimum
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Student will develop awareness of errors s/he routinely makes, will develop strategies to locate these errors in own writing and will strengthen his/her ability to edit own work.
- Student will develop awareness of patterns s/he routinely avoids, but needs to use and will practice these forms to strengthen comprehension and to increase fluency.
- Student will develop awareness that grammar carries meaning and will demonstrate an understanding of differences in the meaning and use of target structures.
- Student will practice target structures: and inverted sentence patterns, complex/compound sentence patterns, reduced clauses/participial phrases, perfect modals, inverted verb patterns after negatives, and conditionals.
- Student will review and practice previous structures that remain problematic in student’s own oral and written communication: fragments, run-ons, verb tense and form, agreement, parallelism, word order, word choice, word form, articles and determine
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