Help with Writing

Writing is an essential skill and a fundamental method of communication. Thewriting program has six levels. The beginning levels cover all basic skills: sentence development, capitalization and punctuation, editing, reporting, inferring, relevance, and expanded writing. The intermediate and advanced levels include parts of speech and sentence analysis, clarity, inaccurate and unclear directions, misleading and inaccurate claims, arguments, passage writing, parallel construction, vocabulary, descriptions, grammar, deductions and reasoning and writing extensions.

Fundamentals of Writing I
Typical Student: 4th grade to adult learners who have not mastered basic writing skills. These students do not write in complete sentences or easily write a series of short, simple sentences.
Students will learn:

To recognize and write complete sentences
To write more sophisticated sentences by expanding sentences, combining shorter sentences to create longer sentences, and writing compound and complex sentences

Students will leave Fundamentals of Writing I with proficient skills in basic writing sentence development.

Fundamentals of Writing II
Typical Student: 5th grade to adult learners who have not mastered basic punctuation and capitalization skills.
Students will learn:

Nineteen punctuation and capitalization rules

Students will leave Fundamentals of Writing II able to compose coherent, understandable, and correctly written sentences.

Process of Writing I
Typical Student: 4th grade to adult learners who have difficulty with expressive writing.
Students will learn:

To translate observations into sentences
To write paragraphs that do not deviate from a topic
To edit the work of others as well as one's own work

Students will leave Process of Writing I able to write interesting paragraphs based on their observations. Students will be proficient in editing their work and the work of others.

Process of Writing II
Typical Student: 4th grade to adult learners who have basic expressive writing skills, but lack the knowledge to write more complex expressive prose.
Students will learn:

To write clearly (using pronouns and including details that are necessary for clarity)
To write with a variety of sentences (sentences that begin with a dependent clause, sentences that contain a series and some compound sentences)
To write what people say and appropriately paragraph their conversations
To edit for clarity, punctuation, paragraphs and sentence forms.

Students will leave Process of Writing II with sophisticated and conversational writing skills.