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What you'll learn

Apply essential elements of the writing process to create an impactful and error-free written document that effectively communicates to the audience.

Employ writing tools, organizing strategies, and source discovery and integration techniques to simplify and improve the drafting process.

Utilize revising, editing, and polishing techniques to enhance a first draft, and adopt practices to stay motivated and avoid writer's block.

There are 10 modules in this course

Successful learners are able to communicate what they are learning, both verbally and in written formats. This course will provide a review of the basics of writing so that learners can effectively organize, draft, revise, edit, and finalize written informational documents, including school assignments. The course will instruct learners how to support their ideas with appropriate information, recognize the types of source material they are considering, distinguish fact from misinformation, and summarize material from informational sources, as well as avoid plagiarism by employing paraphrasing and implementing citations correctly. The course will help students avoid biased and offensive language in written documents, and appropriately utilize punctuation and rhetorical techniques such as persuasion. The course also includes techniques for staying motivated when working on written documents and overcoming writer’s block. Writing is a skill that can be improved with practice. Different situations require different types of writing. This course will assist learners to develop various ways to express ideas in writing, so those ideas can be shared with others.

Module 1: The Writing Process

Module 2: Researching

Module 3: Drafting

Module 4: Mechanics of Writing

Module 5: Revising and Finishing

Module 6: Course Summary

Module 7: Cumulative Quiz

Module 8: Course Resources

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