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Sep 27, 2024
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OPIE D805 - Composition
Through this OPIE part-time level elective class, students will increase their ability to write about familiar or prepared topics (up to three typed pages) with some precision and sufficient support. They will increase their ability to synthesize, summarize, and paraphrase information from articles and academic texts. Students will perform various academic writing tasks such as writing persuasive essays and integrating paraphrased or summarized sources into a text. They will increase their ability to use a variety of grammatical patterns and structures to express original ideas 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 demonstrate appropriate organization in expository writing: write and support a thesis, write appropriately for a given audience, and reason and adequately develop an argument.
- Student will use a variety of grammatical structures and lexical choices to paraphrase ideas and information.
- With guidance from the instructor, feedback on drafts, and opportunities for revision and editing, student writes expository essays (2 - 4 pages), summaries, and critiques of source material.
- With instructor guidance, student will edit own writing for most common L-2 grammatical errors and for his/her own most common errors.
- With instructor guidance, student will revise essays to improve focus, unity, organization and language use.
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