Writing Level 3

The course will teach students how to combine ideas in sentences and learn about writing effective sentences and choosing the appropriate style and diction. Students will be taught the basics of paragraph structure including how to write effective topic sentences. It will also engage students in learning about tone and diction and order of importance, time, order, cause and effect order and comparison and contrast order.

SLOs – Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Produce simple, compound and complex sentences (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Recognize tone and diction in paragraphs (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Organize paragraphs and short responses (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Use new vocabulary in sentences and paragraphs (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages and proverbs (ABE Academic content of writing)
• Use the correct forms of English to communicate their intended meaning