Online Courses
Professional tutoring right in your own home!
Online Courses from Writing Foundations offer personalized tutoring at your student’s own pace via email! All you need is a computer, an email address, a web browser, a decent grasp of word processing and attachments, and Adobe Reader. Each online course will provide the assignments, instruction, helpful handouts, constructive editing, and encouraging feedback!
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Writing Basics covers the foundational elements of fictional writing such as creativity, outlining, narrating, drafting, style, editing, revising, as well as grammar and punctuation. The course will meet the needs of average writers as well as students who have little or no writing experience.
Writing Summaries covers the foundational skills that students will need to write strong research reports. The course includes elements such as comprehension, topic sentences, concluding sentences, outlining, narrating, drafting, style, editing, revising, as well as grammar and punctuation. The course will meet the needs of lightly experienced and average writers.
Fusion 101! will teach students the essential skill of “fusing” information together in order to write focused paragraphs for a research report. Students will choose their own subject material using The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project. The course includes instruction in choosing sources, crafting a thesis, narrowing topics, topic sentences, choosing facts, outlining, narrating, drafting, revising, and stylistic techniques. It will meet the needs of students ages 12 and up who have previously completed the Online Writing Summaries Course or a Live Writing Foundations Course.
The Basic Essay is designed to equip students with the skills to tackle any essay using a basic 5-paragraph structure. The course includes instruction in brainstorming, critical thinking, outlining, drafting, revising, writing style, grammar, and more. The course will meet the needs of experienced writers ages 12 and up.
Essays On Demand offers writers who have completed a Writing Summaries course or Writing Foundations I a concentrated journey through the world of timed essays. In five basic steps, EOD addresses critical thinking, thesis statements, supportive reasoning, drafting, timing and scoring.
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