Master essential college writing skills with our comprehensive course, providing tips, techniques, and resources for academic success and effective communication.
This course is all about getting you ready for college writing. You'll learn the basics and get handy tips to help you write great essays without breaking the bank or your brain!
Learn and practice important skills for successful college writing.
"College Writing Essentials" is extremely valuable to anyone attending college or preparing to enroll after a long absence from high school. Since college writing classes cost thousands of dollars, you surely do not want to fail your writing courses. Before students can compose a sentence, paragraph or full essay, they must understand the fundamental principles that guide those assignments. In this streamlined class, you will get a good foundation for successful college writing, as well as tips and techniques on how to organize college essays. What you learn in this course will also carryover to research papers and standardized tests.
Start your college writing journey with learning how to write good sentences and paragraphs, which leads to a discussion of the writing process and how to generate and arrange ideas for an essay assignment. Learn to develop good thesis statements. You will also learn about academic writing guideline, basic research skills, informal vs. formal writing styles, and how to avoid plagiarism.
Instructional Materials:
This class offers detailed video lessons, downloadable handouts, quizzes and practice exercises to reinforce learning on each topic. Students can review the materials as often as necessary and learn at their own pace. Each section includes printable, self-grading exercises to reinforce your learning.
Video Lessons
Downloadable Handouts
Quizzes
Practice Exercises
Reasons to Enroll:
Students receive clear, effective instruction on writing standards.
Lifetime access to class materials.
No time limit to complete the course.
Learn essential college writing skills
Writing skills for academic success
College readiness expectations
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Ashan R. Hampton has worked as an English instructor in higher education for several years and is very proficient in writing, editing and instruction. Recently, Ashan completed course work for doctoral candidacy in the Leadership for Higher Education program at Capella University with a 4.0 GPA.With her doctoral studies on hold, Ashan has found success in online education. She produces...
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Cannon S.
The instructor was clear, knowledgeable and concise. The examples were relevant. More printables would be a nice addition. Thank you for this nicely put together course.