WESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE COLLEGE

Business and Technical Education Division

Business Department

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE NUMBER: BUSI 2113

COURSE TITLE: Business English

CREDIT HOURS: 3 LECTURE HOURS: 3 LAB HOURS: 0

PREREQUISITE: None

COREQUISITES: None

CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

This course will provide comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of business English. The student will develop a solid foundation in grammar essential for successful communication (LAS)

TEXTBOOK: Business English, 7^th Edition, Guffey.

SUPPLIES: Text, notebook, paper, pens, and pencils

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

1. Demonstrate ability to recognize and properly use the parts of speech.

2. Demonstrate the ability to compose correct and coherent sentences.

3. Demonstrate proficiency in using punctuation, capitalization, and number style skills.

4. Demonstrate the ability to proofread and spell.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

See instructor information sheet for specific course requirements.

METHOD OF EVALUATION:

See instructor information sheet for specific course requirements.

ATTENDANCE POLICY:

Regular attendance in class is crucial for success. Students are expected to attend each class. Each absence from class will adversely affect a student’s grade for the course. Individual instructors are responsible for developing specific policies (see instructor information sheet). Please see the instructor regarding anticipated absences or conflicts due to college sponsored activities.

ACADEMIC ETHICS:

All work is expected to be your own. If unethical behavior is detected, ALL parties involved will be denied points for that homework or exam. The questioned material and a report of the ethics violation will be submitted to the department chair for further action as deemed necessary by the department chair.

COURSE COMPETENCIES:

1.0 Demonstrate ability to recognize and properly use the parts of speech.

1.1 Define the eight parts of speech.

1.2 Recognize how parts of speech function in sentences.

1.3 Recognize subjects and predicates.

1.4 Complete sentences in three basic sentence patterns.

1.5 Recognize four kinds of nouns.

1.6 Distinguish between descriptive nouns and possessive nouns.

1.7 Use personal pronouns correctly as subjects and objects.

1.8 Distinguish between personal possessive pronouns and contractions.

1.9 Choose the correct pronoun in compound constructions, comparatives, and appositives.

1.10 Use reflexive pronouns correctly.

1.11 Use nominative case pronouns with subject complements.

1.12 Make personal pronouns agree with their antecedents in number and gender.

1.13 Understand the traditional use of common gender and be able to use its alternatives with sensitivity.

1.14 Make personal pronouns agree with compound subjects.

1.15 Make personal pronouns agree with indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, and organization names.

1.16 Distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs.

1.17 Identify at least ten linking verbs.

1.18 Recognize active and passive voice verbs.

1.19 Write verbs in the present, past, and future tenses correctly.

1.20 Use the emphatic tense correctly.

1.21 Recognize and use present and past participles.

1.22 Write the correct forms of commonly used irregular verbs.

1.23 Make verbs agree with subjects.

1.24 Recognize gerunds and supply appropriate modifiers of gerunds.

1.25 Use adjectives and adverbs correctly.

1.26 Identify and use prepositions correctly.

1.27 Recognize and correctly use conjunctions.

2.0 Demonstrate the ability to compose correct and coherent sentences.

2.1 Compose sentences showing words playing more than one grammatical role.

2.2 Covert fragments into complete sentences.

2.3 Recognize basic sentence faults such as comma splices and run-on sentences.

2.4 Convert sentences written in the passive voice to sentences int he active voice.

2.5 Identify and remedy split infinitives that result in awkward sentences.

2.6 Rewrite sentences to avoid misplaced verbal phrases and modifiers.

2.7 Spot dangling verbal phrases and other misplaced modifiers.

2.8 Construct formal sentences that avoid terminal prepositions.

2.9 Distinguish between simple and compound sentences.

2.10 Use a parallel construction in composing sentences with correlative conjunctions.

2.11 Distinguish among phrases, dependent clauses, and independent clauses.

2.12 Expand dependent clauses into complete sentences.

2.13 Convert simple sentences into a variety of more complex patterns.

2.14 Recognize simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

3.0 Demonstrate proficiency in using punctuation, capitalization, and number style skills.

3.1 Punctuate statements, commands, questions, and exclamations.

3.2 Correctly use apostrophe to show ownership.

3.3 Correctly punctuate introductory and other verbal phrases.

3.4 Punctuate compound and successive independent adjectives correctly.

3.5 Punctuate compound sentences correctly.

3.6 Punctuate introductory and terminal dependent clauses.

3.7 Punctuate parenthetical, essential, and nonessential dependent clauses.

3.8 Correctly place commas in series, direct address, and parenthetical expressions.

3.9 Use commas correctly in punctuating dates, addresses, geographical items, and appositives.

3.10 Use semicolons correctly when punctuating compound sentences and when necessary to separate items in a series.

3.11 Correctly use colons to introduce lists, quotations, and explanatory sentences.

3.12 Use periods correctly when punctuating sentences, abbreviations, initials, and numerals.

3.13 Use questions marks and exclamation points correctly.

3.14 Recognize acceptable application of the dash.

3.15 Use parenthesis to de-emphasis material.

3.16 Explain when to use commas, dashes, or parentheses to set off nonessential material.

3.17 Correctly use double and single quotes.

3.18 Correctly capitalize material set off by parentheses and dashes.

3.19 Apply standard rules of capitalization.

3.20 Apply standard rules for number expression.

4.0 Demonstrate the ability to proofread and spell.

4.1 Apply rules learned by proofreading and correcting given text.

4.2 Correctly spell words taken from list of most commonly misspelled words.