
Hello and welcome, new students!
Identify and understand the different parts of speech in English, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and many more.
Build on the parts of speech to know the difference between phrases and clauses, and how to use them effectively.
Know and recognize the different punctuation marks and how to use them correctly.
Learn the different pronouns and how they are used in academic essay writing.
Understand the use of verbs, including the different conjugations and various rules.
Know the different types of transition words and phrases, and how they can be effectively used.
Understand the purpose of essays, their main elements, and how they are structured.
Learn how to conceptualize a thesis idea and write a succinct, precise thesis statement.
Learn how to write an introductory paragraph, including its structure and content.
Learn how to write body paragraphs, including the transition, the evidence-analysis cycle and the conclusion.
Learn how to write the concluding paragraph, including its structure, purpose, and effect on the reader.
Learn about the different parts of writing an essay, including planning, writing, and revising.
Learn about global and local flow to logically organize and move between ideas.
Learn how to establish sound logic throughout an essay to effectively communicate a thesis.
Learn about the different rhetorical strategies that can be used to write an effective essay, such as logos, pathos, and ethos.
Learn how to find evidence, integrate it, and correctly credit the source just as it is expected in high school and university.
Some final remarks and tips.
Students may believe that with the recent release of AI chatbots and large language models, the skill of writing has become obsolete.
That is not the case!
Writing is arguably more important than ever now as mediocre writers are drowned out by auto-generated content.
Today, any writing done by a human has to stand out for any chance of survival and dissemination.
CONTENTS AND OVERVIEW
This course will teach students how to write a university-level essay from start to finish. The first module starts with an overview of the basic grammar and rules that will be required to write well.
The second module applies this knowledge in the writing of introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs, including the ever-critical thesis statement.
In fact, we go over not just how to write the thesis statement, but how to come up with the thesis itself, which is the core idea of an essay.
The last module teaches the overall process of writing, which consists of setting a logical structure and sequence of arguments, establishing an overall rhetoric, and incorporating external sources through citations.
SHORT AND PACKED
This course is succinct so that it delivers all the most important knowledge that a student would need in as little time as possible. After all, students don’t have the time to sit through hours of instructional video content!
Nevertheless, the course also comes with lesson-specific supplemental documents that contain exercises and notes so that students can practice the concepts taught in the lectures right away.