Course Description

ESL 202 is designed to develop students' English proficiency in the areas of writing and grammar. The main focus of the course will be on developing essays. Students will be working on both process and product writing.

GOALS - By the end of the course, students of ESL 202-001 (Spring 2009) should be able to:

1. Explain the importance of the writing process
2. Write an examples, description, and comparison/contrast essay using all steps of the writing process
3. Write one five-page essay based on a topic selected from the textbook
4. Locate and correct poorly written sentences, especially in the areas of punctuation, capitalization, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and agreement of subjects and verbs.
5. Apply their newly acquired writing and grammar skills in and outside the classroom environment
6. Demonstrate a higher confidence level when writing essays in English compared to their confidence upon entering the course