Faculty Syllabus

In this course, students will learn even more advanced strategies and techniques for writing organized essays. Emphasis is on writing more complex sentence structures, paraphrasing, summarizing, and writing an MLA-style documented essay. This exit-level writing course is designed to prepare ESOL students to handle the writing tasks they will encounter in college-credit level courses and the workplace.

Course Rationale:

Writing 4 is an exit-level writing course designed to give students practice writing academic essays in different rhetoric modes using outside sources with MLA-documentation.

• Longman Academic Writing Series 4: Essays (5th edition) by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue (ISBN: 978-0136838630)

All Writing Courses must include at least one graded in-class writing assignment, in addition to mid-term in-class essays and final exam in-class essays.

1. Review writing process
2. Paraphrasing and summarizing for use in one essay
3. 4 Required Graded Essay Writing Assignments (multiple drafts)
   1. Comparison-Contrast Essay
   2. Argumentative/ Persuasive Essay (with Counter-Argument)
   3. MLA Documented essay: Instructor’s Choice**Resources available on Faculty Website; Library Orientation re: research and plagiarism required.
   4. Response to an academic article
4. Optional Writing Assignments
   1. Cause/Effect Essay
   2. Journal writing for fluency
5. Typed essays required

Paragraph word guideline: 125-150

• Write a clear, well-organized, multi-paragraph, typed essay using a logical sequence in a prescribed rhetorical mode, i.e. comparison/contrast, argumentative/persuasive, and/or cause and effect.
• Demonstrate writing ability to use the writing process by generating ideas, drafting, revising, and editing.
• Demonstrate ability to use the writing process by generating ideas, drafting, revising, and editing.
• Write coherent and cohesive sentences of three types: simple (affirmative, negative, and interrogative), compound, and complex.
• Incorporate the use of appropriate transitions.
• Recognize and use proper English mechanics, avoiding run-on sentences, comma splices, and fragments.
• Respond to an academic article. Demonstrate proficiency in basic skills related to research-based academic writing and cite sources according to MLA style guidelines.