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Essay Essentials: Improve Your Academic Writing
Achieve academic essay success by learning and practicing essential writing skills in this step by step course
Created byAndrew Sippie
Last updated 1/2020
English
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What you'll learn
- Understand how the writing situation, process, and classroom resources impact you
- Brainstorm to create and use ideas that will develop the essay.
- Effectively develop and structure introduction and conclusion paragraphs
- Write a clear, specific, and well connected thesis
- Understand the organization of essay paragraphs
- Develop detailed, specific, and appropriate body paragraph content
- Revise to ensure your writing is thorough, specific, detailed, and effective.
- Edit for spelling and grammatical mistakes using helpful rules and tips
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Course content
6 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 14m total length
Requirements
- For ESL students, an IELTS score of 7.0 or above is recommended, but a 6.0 may be sufficient.
- Basic knowledge of how and what sentences and paragraphs do
Description
Writing essays can be intimidating. Often, this is because we don't know what the teacher wants. As a teacher, I understand what that is. Using my experience teaching and tutoring essay writing at various colleges and remembering my experience as a student, I'll help you find the essay writing success you deserve through learning the foundations of essay writing.
Write successful essays by learning:
- How to use classroom resources
- The Writing Situation
- The Writing Process
- How to Revise effectively
- Easy Editing Tips
Learn how to develop and organize:
- Brainstorms
- Introduction Paragraphs
- Body Paragraphs
- Conclusion Paragraphs
- The Entire Essay
...Using color-coated examples that show every step
Practice and Use your writing knowledge with:
- 5 quizzes
- 3 writing activities
- A downloadable essay example guide
Who this course is for:
- High School or College students who struggle with essay writing or need to prepare for it.
- Returning college students who need to review essay concepts or who struggle with essay writing.
- English as Second Language (ESL) students who will write essays in High School or College
- Anyone intested in learning more about academic essay writing.