Writing With Purpose, Precision, And Power: Foundations

Improve your grades and tests scores by learning the secrets of writing better essays, articles, language tests.

What you'll learn

Boost your writing scores on IELTS, TOEFL, CELPIP, and TOEIC tests

Write better paragraphs, essays, and articles

Write with increased depth, coherence, and purpose

Achieve academic English goals

Communication with more clarity and purpose

Requirements

Students must be able to listen, read, and write English at an Intermediate level.

Description

Welcome to Foundations, the first mini-course in the series, Writing with Purpose, Precision, and Power. In this first section of the course, you will learn the secret concepts and techniques that great writers use to develop and present their ideas with depth, purpose, and power. These essential writing techniques will help you increase scores on tests such as IELTS, TOEFL, or TOEIC, or improve your high school or college essay grades. When evaluating paragraph or essay writing, both teachers and test graders alike use grading rubrics that typically grade the writing on four categories: Grammar/Readability, Vocabulary/Lexical Use, Task/Assignment Completion, and Meaning/Coherence  & Cohesion. All too often, students focus on the two more superficial aspects of their writing: the grammar and the vocabulary, which account for only 50% of the score. The other 50% is related to the content and development of the idea or argument. If you score well with solid grammar and vocabulary, but your ideas go nowhere, or worse, are confusing and lack depth, you will not get the overall score you want.In this course, Teacher Paul Duke will show you concepts and techniques specifically designed to help you POWER UP the Task Completion and Meaning/Coherence scores.The following topics will be covered:PurposeRhetorical ModeAudienceRegister & ToneBy the end of this course, you will be ready to write an English paragraph that develops a single idea with depth, power and purpose, key elements in getting the high score on writing tests or essay assignments that you dream of.The next section ofthe course, The Paragraph, you will apply these concepts in the practicalwriting of a paragraph.This course is suitable for native speakers of English, English language learners of at least Intermediate levels, and high school or college students.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Purpose

Lecture 2 Purpose

Section 3: Rhetorical Mode

Lecture 3 Rhetorical Modes

Section 4: Audience

Lecture 4 Audience

Section 5: Register & Tone

Lecture 5 Register & Tone

Section 6: Additional content

Lecture 6 What is a writing 'Hook' and Why is It Important?

English-As-Second-Language learners, college students, and native-speaking high school learners.