Course Number: ESL095
Course Title: ESL for Business Purposes I

 STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

Upon completing ESL/BU 095, the student will be able to:

    1. Improve his mastery of the English grammar from a business perspective focusing on sentences structures an the mechanics of the language
    2. Correct grammatical errors with an eye toward minimizing error when writing business communications.

Specific

The student will be able to:

  1.1  Identify subjects and verbs
  1.2  Identify the different sentence completers and the words they describe
  1.3  Use the appropriate pronoun in sentences
  1.4  Observe subject-verb  agreement
  1.5  Identify the different verb forms
  1.6  Write correct sentences
  1.7  Differentiate good sentences from sentences fragments and run on sentences
  1.8  Recognize advanced sentence structure that makes use of parallelism
  1.9  Transpose a direct quotation into an indirect quotation and a direct question into an indirect question
 1.10 Identify dangling and misplaced modifiers
 1.11 Apply the different rules of punctuation, capitalization and abbreviation
  2.1  Revise letters with errors on subject verb agreement and verb forms
  2.2  Proof read letters with pronoun errors
  2.3  Revise letters containing sentence fragments and run-on sentences
  2.4  Revise letters for faulty parallelism, misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers
  2.5  Proof read letters for errors in mechanics