This course is a combination writing course suitable for students with a TOEFL Paper-Based Test score of up to 459, or for students who have successfully completed the Gateway English course.
Creative Writing Essentials introduces students to the process of creative writing. It will give ample practice and reinforcement of writing skills by utilizing peer brainstorming, analyzing model paragraphs, identifying and practicing topic sentences, supporting sentences to correctly structure writing. The course is designed to use the students' experience as a base for writing, and classroom tasks will be guided to develop proficiency.
Writing tasks will focus on writing as yourself for the teacher or a classmate (though writing for a reader outside the classroom may also occur), and the process will involve gathering ideas, organizing ideas and turning these ideas into written text. Corrective feedback will be given and texts will be edited and rewritten in the process writing model. The style of writing for this course is aimed at being similar to journal writing or narratives, and the purpose of the writing in this course is to inform or entertain.
All homework and assignments for this course will be done on-line through Moodle. All writing work in class will be done on a keyboard, so students will be required to bring a computer to class every week.