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Basic English Writing
Learn to write with confidence using well constructed sentences and paragraphs to convey your message more effectively.
Last updated 6/2023
English
What you'll learn
- Write in English with confidence.
- Understand and use English skills more effectively.
- Improve spoken English by knowing proper terms and structures of language.
- Identify basic parts of speech - helpful for English courses and for improving overall writing skills.
- Write quality sentences.
- Write excellent paragraphs with unity and coherence - useful for all English writing including essays, book reports, workplace writing.
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Course content
5 sections • 23 lectures • 3h 26m total length
Requirements
- Students require a minimum low-intermediate level of English in order to understand the instructor and follow the slide commentary. A student's writing skills may be quite poor at the beginning, however, as long as he/she can understand verbal English.
Description
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Some student comments:
"It is very good and detailed."
"This has served as an excellent refresher course. This has given me confidence to write better and improve on my language skills. Thank you!"
"This is a very important course for those who intend to improve your writing skills."
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This course is for anyone who wishes to improve his/her English writing skills. All the basics are included in three short, easy to handle lessons. This is an excellent course for those people who wish to improve their writing skills for school, in the workplace, or for their own personal growth and learning.
Added benefits include the fact that improved writing skills lead to improved speaking skills as well. Students include those from English speaking backgrounds who wish to improve their writing skills - young learners to adult and ESL or EFL students who wish to make gains in written English and become more familiar with the English language.
For students with English as their first language the goals would be to remind them of basics and improve their technical writing skills before moving into more complex writing materials.
For ESL and EFL students, the primary goals are to gain insight into the structure of writing in English and to build confidence.
NOTE: There are no writing assignments for this course.
Parts of Speech
nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
Sentence writing
subject & predicate
phrases & clauses
dependent & independent clauses
four kinds of sentences by form
four kinds of sentences by purpose
how to avoid sentence fragments and run-on sentence errors
New video added January 2017 - Independent & Dependent Clauses.
Paragraphs
defining a paragraph
four kinds of paragraphs with a focus on central paragraphs
topic sentences
unity - why it is necessary and how your topic sentence guides you
coherence - what it is and how to achieve it in your writing
transition
Who this course is for:
- This course is meant for students who wish to improve the quality of their writing in English. The course acts as both an introduction to quality English writing and a refresher course for those who need to remind themselves of the foundation to English writing. This course is not intended for those who have excellent writing skills already.