Students should be able to recognize a complete sentence and should have a basic understanding of grammar before taking this class.

Paragraphs are the building blocks of well-written papers and stories. In this class, we will briefly go over how paragraphs are used and how to structure paragraphs to make our writing clear to our readers. The majority of the class will be spent in workshop. We will look at how published writers have structured strong paragraphs and will perform some in-class exercises. Then, each student will examine his or her own paragraph to see where it succeeds and where it could be improved. As time allows, students will then use what we’ve learned to write a new paragraph.