Oct 05, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
OPIE D970 - Academic Combined Skills 2
Academic Combined Skills 2 is a bridge level integrated course in English as a Second Language for students who are also permitted to take one or two academic courses simultaneously. Eight hours of classroom instruction (two hours a day, four days a week) are designed to provide students with high-level language skills development, with a specific focus on academic reading and writing skills, as well as academic performance and study skills. Students will increase their ability to paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information from articles and academic texts and will begin to learn to evaluate academic source material.They will increase their ability to use a variety of grammatical patterns and structures to express original ideas in writing and to edit their written work. Students also work on academic listening and speaking skills.
Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 8
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 48.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 8.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student comprehends and relates main ideas of authentic reading passage up to 20 pages in length and reads authentic university-level textbook selections at a minimum rate of 140 wpm with at least 75% comprehension.
- Student demonstrates ability to revise essays to improve focus, unity, organization, and language use and to edit his own writing for most common grammatical errors.
- Student is able to identify, compare, and analyze information from multiple textual sources and is able to synthesize information from various sources to solve problems and perform writing tasks.
- Student recognizes text-based paraphrase and understands its purpose, recognizes references, acknowledgements, and bibliographic citations, and is able to identify, compare, and analyze information from multiple textual sources.
- Student uses textual evidence to verify comprehension and support his/her position and demonstrates ability to infer meaning within a text, to distinguish fact from opinion, and to detect author’s point-of-view.
- With instructor guidance, student demonstrates ability to write an expository essay (3-5 pp), to write sentence and paragraph length summaries, and to write critiques (3-5 pp) of source material.
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