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Advanced Core Skills A (D500 101)
Ohio Program of Intensive English
Summer Semester 2013
Instructor: Andrea Johannes Email: johannes@ohio.edu Office Phone: 740-597-5848 Office: R-Tech 318 A Classroom: Convo 196B Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thurs. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Class time: 9:40 a.m. -12:45 p.m. (or by appointment)
Class Goals: * Reading: Strengthen both your general and academic reading skills with an emphasis in expository readings. This also includes academic vocabulary, recognizing organizational patterns, understanding minor points, main & supporting ideas, author’s purpose, outline a reading section, write a short summary of what you read, etc. * Writing: Develop fluency as writers with both personal and academic topics. This includes learning to write a 5-paragraph essay using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, unity, coherence, logic, etc. * Grammar: Improve your ability to understand form and function (meaning) in an effort to help you communicate more accurately in speaking and writing. You will work to learn to when it is appropriate to use a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a complex sentence.
Required Texts & Materials: * Grammar Dimensions 3 (4th ed.) by Stephen H. Thewlis and Diane Larson-Freeman * Grammar Dimensions 3 Workbook by Diane Larson-Freeman and Kathleen Flynn * Blue Prints 2: Composition Skills for Academic Writing by Mary Fitzpatrick * Reading Connections (High-Intermediate) by Anne Ediger and Cheryl Pavlik * Vocabulary Power 3 by Kate Dingle * Please bring the following materials to class each day: * Standard size* lined notebook paper (8 ½ by 11 inches) * 3-hole binder with folders * Pencil, a colored pen (red or green) & hi-liter * All FIVE textbooks * A method for bringing electronic documents to and from class (e.g. a USB flash drive)
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Ohio Program of Intensive English
Summer Semester 2013
Instructor: Andrea Johannes Email: johannes@ohio.edu Office Phone: 740-597-5848 Office: R-Tech 318 A Classroom: Convo 196B Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thurs. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Class time: 9:40 a.m. -12:45 p.m. (or by appointment)
Class Goals: * Reading: Strengthen both your general and academic reading skills with an emphasis in expository readings. This also includes academic vocabulary, recognizing organizational patterns, understanding minor points, main & supporting ideas, author’s purpose, outline a reading section, write a short summary of what you read, etc. * Writing: Develop fluency as writers with both personal and academic topics. This includes learning to write a 5-paragraph essay using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, unity, coherence, logic, etc. * Grammar: Improve your ability to understand form and function (meaning) in an effort to help you communicate more accurately in speaking and writing. You will work to learn to when it is appropriate to use a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a complex sentence.
Required Texts & Materials: * Grammar Dimensions 3 (4th ed.) by Stephen H. Thewlis and Diane Larson-Freeman * Grammar Dimensions 3 Workbook by Diane Larson-Freeman and Kathleen Flynn * Blue Prints 2: Composition Skills for Academic Writing by Mary Fitzpatrick * Reading Connections (High-Intermediate) by Anne Ediger and Cheryl Pavlik * Vocabulary Power 3 by Kate Dingle * Please bring the following materials to class each day: * Standard size* lined notebook paper (8 ½ by 11 inches) * 3-hole binder with folders * Pencil, a colored pen (red or green) & hi-liter * All FIVE textbooks * A method for bringing electronic documents to and from class (e.g. a USB flash drive)
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