Learn how to write and read effectively by focusing on finding and fixing errors, revising for context, supporting your writing, and writing an essay.

Course Introduction:

This course covers concepts that prospective teachers should be proficient in to effectively teach general essay writing skills. This course will prepare you for the general essay writing exam for teachers by considering how grammar and syntax affect an essay, how to recognize context and make appropriate revisions, what strategies you can use to select and use details in your writing, and how to craft an essay with the help of a rubric.

Throughout the course, we will address strategies for taking the writing exam to help you prepare. This course will help you expand your ability to identify strong writing techniques and use those techniques in your essay writing.

Course Units:
  • Unit 1: Find the Errors! Fix the Errors!
  • Unit 2: Revise for Context
  • Unit 3: Supporting Writing
  • Unit 4: Writing the Essay
Course Learning Objectives:
  • Identify and correct grammar, mechanics, and syntax errors in writing;
  • Revise writing in its context accounting for development, organization, style, and writing conventions;
  • Assess research integration, relevance, credibility, and citation format; and
  • Write effective argument, source-based, and analysis essays in a limited amount of time.
Continuing Education Units: 1.1