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Berkeley Global
Learn how to compose well-crafted college-level essays by exploring each step in the writing process. In various writing assignments, you gain practice with descriptive, narrative and other forms of expository writing.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Be able to think, draft and revise steps to present your ideas and evidence in the most logical order, while reducing mechanical errors.
- Practice brainstorming and other techniques to gather ideas.
- Write a first draft that includes your ideas and focuses on a workable theme.
- Learn to gather evidence to illustrate or support your ideas.
- Edit your essay using mechanics such as grammar and spelling.
- Proofread and double-check such mechanics as spelling, punctuation, typographical correctness, and so forth.
What You Learn
- Writing to describe a place or a person
- Grammar and punctuation
- Creating detailed descriptions
- Journal writing
- Exploring ideas for future writings
- Comparing and contrasting Explaining "how,” “why,” and “what” in writing
- Differences in written and spoken language
- Using "I"
- Writing a research essay
- Analysis of your own and others’ writing
- Parallelism
- Etymology
How You Learn
- Reading assignments
- Practice writings
- Discussion assignments
- Writing assignments
- Proctored final examination
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Spring enrollment opens on October 17!