English: Critical Reading & Writing Skills

This course is designed to help the student build a grammatical tool kit that he or she will need to employ in analytical argumentative writing. Becuase a solid foundation is grammer is essential, the course will start a review and graded quizzes on each of the four sentence types. Since writing mastery calls for the ability to read, to listen, to discuss, and to write, the course will also take between five and sex listening tests. In the writing of paragtaphs, particular attention will be given to writing an effective topic sentence that will be clauses and intentionally suboradinating secondary information. In the writing of essays, the student will learn how to compose an subpoints, and a statement of purpose. Subsequent paragraphs will demonstrate the student`a ability write an effective topic sentences supported by main clause primary facts and subordinated secondary ones. The student will also learn how to write an effective concluding paragraph which gives the reader clear and specific main clause reminders for each of the subpoints that were covered in the body of the paper.