Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome to Writing Basics!

    • Overview
  • 2

    Section 1: What is Writing?

    • Writing as Communication

    • Writing as a Process

    • Self-Evaluation
  • 3

    Section 2: Organization

    • Organization: Overview

    • Organizing an Essay

    • Organizing an Essay

    • Organizing a Paragraph

    • Organizing a Paragraph

    • Activity

    • Activity: Answer
  • 4

    Section 3: Clarity

    • Clarity: Overview

    • Strategies for Improving Clarity

    • Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences

    • Activity: Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences

    • Parallelism, Dangling Modifiers, and Verb Tense Changes

    • Activity: Parallelism, Dangling Modifiers, and Verb Tense Changes

    • Word Choice

    • Activity: Word Choice
  • 5

    Section 4: The Writing Process

    • Approaching Writing

    • Self-Evaluation

    • The Writing Process: Overview

    • The Writing Process: Overview

    • Pre-writing

    • Pre-writing

    • Activity: Starting your Short Paper