Get that Elusive 'A' in Academic Writing

Course Description

Improve your Writing Scores in School and Standardized Tests with Terita Smith!

This course will be conducted by Terita Smith, who specializes in academic writing and has worked with hundreds of students, improving their writing skills. She is a skilled instructor is able to quickly “diagnose” your writing challenges and help you understand how you can more easily understand the writing process. In this course, she will help you learn to develop strategies and the language of writing/ composition to produce effective academic writing.

Course outline:

• This course includes Essay writing in its various forms, including developing introductions and conclusions
• You will learn to approach and develop a thesis statement, formulate a persuasive argument and create strong supporting evidence
• Generating powerful topic sentences are taught
• You will receive instruction in sentence and paragraph structure
• You will learn writing to address an intended audience
• Ways to effectively draft, revise and edit are also taught
• You will learn to formulate compelling words and sentences, as well as avoid unclear and vague writing

You will receive a wide variety of assignments and readings that you must respond to in writing. The readings will be designed to provide an additional educational component to your course of study because the readings will be non-fiction and teachable.

Students are helped in overcoming writer’s block. Students will be taught in a way that teaches critical thinking skills. Students who need assistance in the admissions essay for college will also benefit by taking this course.

Why should you enroll in this course:

1. Get better grades in academic writing
2. Build more confidence about your writing
3. Learn how to write effectively for future advancement

A difference in this course from that of competitors is that this course will be taught primarily by using the Socratic Method. This is a teaching method which teaches through a form of inquiry (repeated asking and answering questions) so that you are not told the answer, but discover the answers from within yourself through the questioning process which generates critical thinking.

Terita is also trained in rhetoric and discourse analysis which offers another level of teaching to the writing process. These additional disciplines help you to think beyond traditional ways of composing essays or other academic papers, and help you focus on how language is used to influence you and, in turn, how you can use language in certain ways to enhance what you are attempting to communicate through your writing.

What does this course include:

• 10 online classes - 1 class per week
• 10 weeks course
• Self paced tutorials followed by Regular assignments (with deadline)
• No need to purchase books separately