ESL 30 — Advanced Academic ESL
Refines Academic ESL skills. Using subject matter from selected disciplines, this course enhances students’ ability to recognize and apply purpose, function, organization, and conventions of academic writing in English, preparing students for entry into first-year college composition. Utilizing all four language skills—reading, writing, listening, speaking—and prior knowledge, students learn to recognize, summarize, and critically respond to an author’s argument and point of view. Students learn to make use of different rhetorical modes and complex sentence structures, effective transitional words, correct word forms and adequate content vocabulary to compose logical and well-developed essays.