Elements of Academic Style | How to Write Better Essays

Elements of Academic Style | How to Write Better Essays, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 11 lectures, 10 quizzes, based on 4 reviews, and has 1084 subscribers.

You will learn about How to write college papers with confidence and power How to engage academic audiences with stylistic devices How to identify and correct poorly written academic prose How to accurately and effectively combine ideas This course is ideal for individuals who are Senior high school students or College and university students or Intermediate ESL students or Young professionals It is particularly useful for Senior high school students or College and university students or Intermediate ESL students or Young professionals.

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Title: Elements of Academic Style | How to Write Better Essays

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 11

Number of Quizzes: 10

Number of Published Lectures: 11

Number of Published Quizzes: 10

Number of Curriculum Items: 31

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 31

Original Price: CA$24.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to write college papers with confidence and power
How to engage academic audiences with stylistic devices
How to identify and correct poorly written academic prose
How to accurately and effectively combine ideas

Who Should Attend

Senior high school students
College and university students
Intermediate ESL students
Young professionals

Target Audiences

Senior high school students
College and university students
Intermediate ESL students
Young professionals

You have a good grasp of grammar, but you’re still not getting the grades you think you deserve. If you’re like most college freshmen, you haven’t really been taught how to write with style. You know about punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling, but you don’t know how to make your writing shine.

The Elements of Academic Styleis a foundational course covering 10of the most important rules for writing amazing academic papers.

Through short lectures, mini-quizzes, and hands-on assignments, you will learn how harmonyand powercan breathe life into your prose.

The secrets to harmony are 5 :

Begin your paragraph with a topic sentence
Make supporting details related
Connect ideas with linking words
Express similar ideas with a similar form
Keep related words together

To unleash powerful prose, follow these 5 :

Use the active voice
Make sentences positive
Use concrete and precise language
Throw out needless words
Avoid a series of similar sentence structures

About the instructor:

Energetic and innovative Canadian English language professional with 10 years of experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to adolescents and adults in prestigious universities and institutions in Canada and abroad. Driven to deliver engaging lessons to reluctant learners, foster communication and inspire students to reach their goals set through individualized progress plans based on students’ specific needs. Harnesses the power of Web 2.0 tools to maximize learning opportunities while fostering student engagement.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Rule 1: Begin paragraph with topic sentence

Lecture 1: Rule 1: Begin paragraph with topic sentence

Chapter 3: Rule 2: Make supporting details actually support

Lecture 1: Rule 2: Make supporting details actually support

Chapter 4: Rule 3: Connect Ideas with Connectors

Lecture 1: Rule 3: Connect Ideas with Connectors

Chapter 5: Rule 4: Express what is alike similarly

Lecture 1: Rule 4: Express what is alike similarly

Chapter 6: Rule 5: Keep related words together

Lecture 1: Rule 5: Keep related words together

Chapter 7: Rule 6: Use the active voice

Lecture 1: Rule 6: Use the active voice

Chapter 8: Rule 7: Make sentences positive

Lecture 1: Rule 7: Make sentences positive

Chapter 9: Rule 8: Use concrete and precise language

Lecture 1: Rule 8: Use concrete and precise language

Chapter 10: Rule 9: Throw out needless words

Lecture 1: Rule 9: Throw out needless words

Chapter 11: Rule 10: Avoid a series of similar sentence structures

Lecture 1: Rule 10: Avoid a series of similar sentence structures

Instructors

Massey English
Canadian Academic English Professor

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