Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
OPIE D804 - Grammar for Writing
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: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student will consider factors such as discourse structure, sentence focus, level of certainty, and audience expectations to evaluate the appropriateness of alternative sentences in a given context, including original writing.
- 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 for them.
- Student will develop awareness of patterns s/he routinely avoids 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 learn to use grammar texts as reference resources for successful independent academic writing.
- Student will use different structures to express basically the same information or idea and will use structures that are appropriate for the intended meaning in both original and previously prepared pieces of writing.
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