Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
OPIE D300 - Intermediate Core Skills
Twelve contact-hour core component of a full-time (20 hours/week) course in English as a second language for students aiming at academic study. Students at this level do not take academic courses. Paragraph level writing competency is developed as students expand grammatical knowledge and explore the process of writing. Instruction and practice includes an introduction to the three-paragraph essay. Students begin to incorporate understanding of appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary, and organization into the development of short essays. Common rhetorical modes are introduced and practiced. Develop editing skills.
Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 72.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 12.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student accurately produces target structures: sentence patterns, time, tense, and verb patterns; noun and pronoun patterns, modification and relationship patterns, article and determiner use.
- Student develops (explains) a thesis statement with at least three supporting paragraphs that contain a clear topic sentences and relevant /logical supporting details.
- Student produces previous target patterns (OPIE 0200) with increasing accuracy, i.e., sentence patterns; time, tense, and verb patterns; noun/pronoun patterns; article and deternminer patterns; modification and relationship patterns.
- Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary to write 3 - 5 paragraphs which express his/her own ideas about familiar topics and topics grounded in personal experience. Student edits own writing with assistance.
- Student uses learned target structures to create sentences which express his/her own ideas about familiar topics and topics grounded in personal experience, to participate orally in university and community contexts, and to ask and answer questions.
- Student uses learned target structures to participate orally in both simulated and authentic university and community contexts, including: health, safety, housing, using the library and other campus facilities.
- With guidance and feedback student writes a simple paragraph (100 - 125 words) on familiar topics in the following rhetorical modes: 1. Description 2. Narration.
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