Emphasis is placed on raising awareness of text-types and style related to particular disciplines and developing skills and strategies to produce cohesive and coherent academic writing. Academic Purposes II Altman This course is designed to improve students' organization and coherence in longer pieces of writing, such as term papers. With the focus on academic English as a Second Language, this course will emphasize the development of effective listening strategies. It will feature communicative exchanges in classroom, seminar, discussion session, and laboratory reporting settings. Students may be assigned to the course based upon their performance in ELI 330, or on the Academic English Evaluation, or after an oral interview with an ELI counselor.
Class meetings are two hours a week for ten weeks.
Grades are based upon regular attendance, successful completion of assignment, and final assessment of proficiency. This course is designed for students who need to improve their presenting and discussion skills in order to perform successfully in their academic work. Then the work will move to a dual focus. In class sessions once a week, students will concentrate on modifying speech fluency, with work on elements of stress, rhythm, rate, pacing and pausing, and vocal qualities. In small-group sessions one a week ,students will concentrate on modifying accuracy in spoken English with work on sounds and sound combinations.