Students will engage with different writing styles and methods as a way of developing their own writing skills. Students will learn how to form basic summaries, descriptions, and analyses of various types of information. Students will engage with critical thinking skills when developing their research paper and discerning what is a credible source and synthesizing the information on their own. Students will also learn technical writing skills from grammar to formatting to editing and revision skills. The purpose of this course is to allow students to take a step closer to being successful college level writers when their day in the classroom comes! 

I have been teaching at the university level for nearly five years, and have graded and edited hundreds of papers from college freshmen in those years. I hope to help develop writing skills in high school aged children in this class to prevent many of the common errors I see in university papers! 

Homework Offered
Students are expected to participate in weekly assignments that will be submitted to the instructor and feedback will be given for each and every assignment. Each assignment is submitted through Google Classroom and feedback is personalized based on the student's strengths and weaknesses. Each week students will get suggestions on how to further improve and be told what they are doing well.
2 - 4 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Learners will receive a grade for every assignment and personalized feedback. A final class assessment and grade is available upon request.
Grades Offered