Writing I

Course content

The ability to communicate effectively in writing is one of the most important skills for educa-tional and career success. This course is designed to help you improve your understanding and application of techniques and skills in writing. We will cover information about writing from the prewriting stages of planning and organiza-tion through actual writing, and revision and editing. The course is organized around the actual steps and components of the writing process. The order in which the material is cov-ered in this course will model the sequence of steps one would follow in actual practice when faced with a writing task. Thus, we will begin with prewriting techniques that will help you sharpen and refine your writing objectives. Next, we will cover principles of organization that will help you arrange and structure information effectively to meet your specific writing objectives. We will then move to the basics of actual composition, including sentence and paragraph construction that will help you write in coherent and grammatically correct form. Finally, we will cover revising, editing and proofreading techniques that will help you im-prove the overall quality of the documents you prepare.