Essay Essentials: Revising and Editing, Easy Steps to Improve Your Writing
In this one-time interactive English Language Arts class, middle school students will gain practical tools to revise and edit their own writing. These skills are helpful for creative writing as well as nonfiction (essay) writing.
Martha Jackson, English Language Arts and Writing
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1 live meeting
50 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
Have you ever wondered how to turn your rough draft into an amazing, polished piece that you WANT other people to read? Do you feel stuck when your teacher tells you to improve your writing, but you don't know where to begin? Join us for this class to gain some practical tools to improve your writing. Revising and editing is more than making sure spelling is correct. This interactive class will give students manageable steps and simple techniques to be able to improve their own writing, including focusing on consistent verb tense and point of view, formal writing, and improving word choice. Students will have opportunities to practice and discuss different methods to revise and edit writing in class. While the focus of the time in class will mainly be on non-fiction writing, skills from this class can easily be applied to creative writing as well. This is an excellent class for students of all writing abilities. After this class, students will have increased confidence in their ability to take a rough draft and transform it into a polished final draft. ****************************** The content of this class is also taught as part of informative (explanatory) and argumentative comprehensive essay classes as well as an ongoing class. They are linked below if you'd like to take a look. Informative (Explanatory) Research Essay https://outschool.com/classes/essay-essentials-writing-the-complete-informative-research-essay-gVAL0qKb?usid=yvzSFmIZ&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link Argumentative Research Essay https://outschool.com/classes/essay-essentials-writing-the-complete-argumentative-research-essay-x4N29RVm?sectionUid=0560481e-be9c-4406-a2d4-b0b848ef7278&usid=yvzSFmIZ&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link Elements of a Research Essay (ongoing) https://outschool.com/classes/elements-of-the-research-essay-writing-club-6nommTN5?usid=yvzSFmIZ&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link *** ***********************************************************
Learning Goals
Students will learn practical steps to transition rough drafts into complete, polished final drafts.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
none
Supply List
-a non-black ink pen (blue, red, green, etc) -handouts will be provided before class, to be printed before class begins
1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
none
Joined February, 2021
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in English from University of Mississippi
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, and held a Professional Teaching Certificate in Florida to teach English in grades 6-12. For the past several years I have taught small group classes on essay writing, including how to write thesis statements. Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$13
per classMeets once
50 min
Completed by 31 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-14
2-8 learners per class
