Course Syllabus

Syllabus for ESL 781 Transitional Reading, Writing, & Grammar

Santa Rosa Junior College     
Spring 2024 

Teacher: Beth Power 
Section #5722 
Email: epower@santarosa.edu  

Office: by appointment 
Jan 17-May 16  
MWTh 6:30-9:30 
      Welcome to class! This class is the transition from non-credit to credit courses at Santa Rosa Junior College. We will practice academic reading, writing clear organized sentences into meaningful paragraphs, learning specific skills and grammar in context. For each hour of class, there will be an equal amount of homework (9 hours of class each week could have 9 hours of homework each week). You will have homework & tests for each unit in the texts. The 2 required texts are Pathways 1 Reading, Writing & Critical Thinking, 2nd edition and Fundamentals of English Grammar Student Book A, 5th ed by Azar et al.  We will also read a novel, Seedfolks.  Your final grade will be based on your class participation, on-time homework completion, writing assignments, and tests. It is your responsibility to come to each class prepared and ready to learn. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to complete class and homework assignments before the next class. To learn a lot and pass the class: do your homework and don't be absent!  

Study buddies to call to review class work: 

Name:                                                  Contact:  

________________________________    ___________________________________

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From SRJC Course description:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 

  1. Apply critical thinking skills to respond to adapted selections of fiction and nonfiction
  2. Apply the writing process to produce organized paragraphs that reflect critical thinking, incorporate academic content and demonstrate grammatical control at an appropriate level.
  3. Comprehend low intermediate reading passages by identifying organizational strategies, summarizing and using main ideas and details to support writing assignments
  4. Word-process paragraphs and access information on the Internet
  5. Utilize meta-cognitive thinking skills in learning and studying processes
  6. Utilize SRJC resources and services to realize academic goals
  7. Use the writing process to produce multi-draft paragraphs with a clear topic sentence, supporting details and a concluding sentence on relevant topics covered in class
  8. Recognize and produce different genres of academic writing, such as descriptive/narrative, compare/contrast and expository modes
  9. Utilize level-appropriate critical thinking skills in developing and supporting a topic sentence
  10. Complete in-class, timed paragraphs in response to a reading
  11. Edit papers for specific grammar points
  12. Integrate academic language into paragraphs
  13. Demonstrate sentence variety in writing
  14. Demonstrate level-appropriate control of sentence structure and boundaries
  15. Demonstrate level-appropriate control of verb tenses, spelling and punctuation
  16. Avoid plagiarism