This course is best suited for students with TOEFL scores between 425 and 460 who are reasonably comfortable taking instruction and participating in class in English have not previously taken a course in writing in English.
This course is designed to help students become confident in using their English to produce written work from paragraph length to essay length. Students will be exposed to initial concepts in how to write good sentences, expand and vary sentences, improve writing style and write in formal tone. Subsequently, students will learn how to organize and support ideas to build a cohesive paragraph. Students will practice to write various cohesive short essays throughout the semester.