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 Department:    EAP

 Course #:    97

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    330108

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

A semi-intensive course for English language learners with an emphasis on academic composition and grammar skills that will prepare students for EAP 98.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement test scores, C or higher in EAP 70, or instructor permission.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Elective  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Write paraphrases and one-page summaries of academic texts.
2. Produce non-research-based but thesis-driven essays (maximum three pages) that include an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
3. Identify a variety of sentence types including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
4. Demonstrate the ability to use transition words, phrases, and clauses for natural flow in writing.
5. Use simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses to write about past, present, or future events
6. Use level-appropriate academic vocabulary and third person voice in essays and summaries.
7. Compose electronic communication (emails, online discussions, chats, etc.) that use academically appropriate tone and content.
8. Demonstrate competency using subject verb agreement within written sentences and clauses.
9. Revise written drafts through peer revision, tutor appointments, or instructor feedback.
10. Use MLA (or APA) document formatting for all formal written assignments.
11. Read academic texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
12. Communicate how power, privilege, equity, and empathy affect our daily lives by engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse texts and media.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Essay structure
2. Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
3. Simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses
4. Level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Revising
7. Academic reading