IELP 051 - IELP Advanced Writing

Credits: 1-5
LEC hours per week: 5
Course focus is on organizing and presenting information to serve a specific purpose. Graphic organizers are routinely used to generate ideas. Students use a variety of sentence types and transition words to organize ideas into logical paragraphs with main ideas and supporting details. Students work on editing skills and observe writing conventions of grammar, spelling and sentence structure. This course includes daily discussion, individual and group writing activities, examinations and homework. This course is designed to prepare students for a successful transition to college-level courses and to develop the behaviors and values relevant to success in higher education and the labor market. This course is in accordance with College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education.
Course Outcomes:

Organize and analyze information and reflect upon its meaning in order to draw sound conclusions.
Assess how authors structure text and deploy vocabulary for specific writing purposes, and apply these strategies to one’s own writing.
Analyze the ways in which purpose and audience shape the construction of a text.
Deploy strategies to plan, organize, and structure complex ideas to produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
Appropriately moderate vocabulary (including idiom, colloquialisms, and cultural references), sentence structure, voice, tone, rhetorical forms, and style for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Critically and reflexively evaluate writing and deploy strategies for revising.
Students will show proficiency at level D in Reading based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1,2,5,6,7,9, and 10 (use reading rubric to determine competency).
Students will show proficiency at Level D in Writing based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8, and 9 (use writing rubric to determine competency).

Course Topics:

Planning
Text generation
Writing conventions
Proof reading
Mechanics