ENGL 301 - Writing for Proficiency (English for Speakers of Other Languages)

Units: 3
Practice in writing skills necessary for proficiency, determined by portfolio assessment, required to enroll in next level writing course and complete University Writing Skills Requirement. Designed for multilingual students. Some students may demonstrate proficiency for UWSR upon course completion.

Prerequisites: All of: ENGL 101, ENGL 102, ENGL 104, junior standing.
Credit Restrictions: Not for English major credit.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGL 3001.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: CR/NC grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

write argument essays with a clear focus, a variety of development strategies, and ideas and evidence in support of the writer’s intended purpose;
use a clear structure in organizing essays and a range of transitions and other coherence devices to connect ideas within and between paragraph;
use outside source materials appropriately to support the writer’s own ideas;
edit essays at the sentence level in order to meet expectations of academic audiences.