Available Courses

• Local Aspects of Advanced English Composition—Free

  • Facilitator: Erlyn Baack

  

  Registration for the current class ended September 13, and we are now in our final week of an eight-week class.

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  Local Aspects of Advanced English Composition - The focus of this course is on sentences (simple, compound, and complex), dependent and independent clauses, adjective clauses, appositives, parallel structure, topic sentences, controlling statements, supporting details, common sentence errors such as run-ons and comma splices, and noun clauses.  This course contains MANY resource materials or "how to" instructions, followed by many practice quizzes that do not count and many real quizzes that DO count toward a final grade.  The materials in the course are presented in eight sections over a period of eight weeks.  Each week contains practice quizzes and real quizzes that count toward a final score.  Quizzes that count are open only during the week in which they are placed.

  Several short stories by international authors are also included along with True/False comprehension quizzes and a forum for extended discussions about the short stories.  The short stories are each about two or three pages.  Participation in the forum discussions is graded, and it will be a good opportunity to apply the local aspects of the course to real responses, both to the stories and other course participants.

• Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English

  • Facilitator: Erlyn Baack

  

  Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English is an eight-week class that will be offered in mid-January 2010.  Candidates for this class will be expected to write a self-introduction and include a photo similar to my self-introduction and photo HERE.  The goal of this class is successful academic writing.  Over a period of eight weeks, participants write a series of essays emphasizing organization (global) and accuracy (local). Participants in the class will practice writing and revising organized academic essays much like those in this student's site, Sports.  Participants in this class will practice fluency through frequent responses to both issues and others' essays, much like the discussion in THIS THREAD (used with permission).
  

  For those about to write the Test of Written English (TWE) or begin university studies requiring academic essays in English, this online class is a good choice for a solid foundation in academic writing.

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