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COURSE INTRODUCTION

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: The Importance of Writing and Getting Started

1.1: The Value of Writing

Five Cool Things about Writing

1.2: Speech vs. Writing

Speech vs. Writing

Language Communities

Interaction: The Difference between Speech and Writing

1.3: Purpose and Audience

Identifying Purpose and Audience

1.4: Four Keys to Good Writing

The Four Keys to Good Writing

1.5: Paragraph Structure

Model Paragraph and Outline

Activity: Paragraph Outlining

1.6: Personal Writing

Personal Writing: A Definition

Being Specific in Personal Writing

Activity: Rewriting Statements

1.7: Prewriting Strategies

Prewriting

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Unity and Support

2.1: Topic Sentences

Staying on Topic

Activity: Parts of a Topic Sentence

Common Errors to Avoid When Writing a Topic Sentence

Activity: Writing Topic Sentences

Four Things You Need to Know about Topic Sentences

2.2: The Three Es

The Three Es

2.3: Anticipating Questions

Anticipating Reader Questions

Activity: Missing Support

Activity: Completing a Paragraph

2.4: Bring Writing to Life

Being Specific

Show Me, Don't Tell Me

Making Boring Sentences More Interesting

2.5: Writing Red Flags

Comparing the Support in Two Similar Paragraphs

Red Flags

2.6: Main Ideas

Activity: Distinguishing General from Specific Ideas

The Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

Activity: Organizing Ideas into an Outline

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Coherence

3.1: Organizing Ideas

Organizing Ideas into a Logical Order

3.2: Relationships between Ideas

Connection of Ideas

Developing Relationships between Ideas

3.3: Transitions

Types of Transitions

Activity: Relationship and Transition Fill-in-the-Blank

Transition Words

Transitional Words and Phrases

Content Transitions

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Using Sentence-Level Skills to Proofread and Polish a Piece of Writing

4.1: Sentence Skills

Two Key Points about Sentence Skills

Parts of a Sentence

Activity: Identifying Subjects and Verbs

4.2: Fragments

Basics about Fragments

Fixing Fragments

Activity: Find and Correct Fragments

4.3: Run-Ons

Definition of a Run-On

Fixing Run-Ons

Activity: Correcting Run-Ons

Activity: Subordination and Coordination

4.4: Punctuation

Punctuation and Spelling