ESL 1070 - Reading and Writing in English

Students will read general, trade, and academic audience essays, articles, and texts. Reading strategies and critical thinking will be introduced and applied through comprehension questions, summary writing, and written responses. Students will be asked to write for general and academic audiences. Appropriate documentation of sources will be reviewed. The use of various grammatical structures and multi-clauses/varied sentence structure will be examined. Students will construct a variety of essays including descriptive, persuasive, and comparative essays. (4 Credits) Courses under the ESL prefix do not count towards an undergraduate degree.