ELA 070 - Connect III: Reading and Writing

1. Produce non-research-based but thesis-driven essays (maximum two pages) that include an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
2. Write one-paragraph summaries and two-paragraph responses to academic texts that demonstrate ability to paraphrase main points and make connections to personal experience.
3. Write a variety of sentence types including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
4. Use parts of speech with an emphasis on adverb clauses in complex and compound-complex sentences.
5. Use simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses to correctly write about past, present, or future events.
6. Use level-appropriate academic vocabulary in summaries, responses, and essays.
7. Use subject verb agreement within written sentences and clauses.
8. Effectively revise and edit essays through peer revision, or tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
9. Use MLA document formatting for all formal written assignments.
10. Read academic texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
11. Demonstrate global citizenship, critical thinking, and metacognition.

1. Essay structure
2. Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
3. Simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses
4. Level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Revision and editing
7. Reading