Academic Writing Foundations introduces students to the process of academic 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.
Presented as a foundation level course, it should meet the needs of lower-level learners through practice in basic grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This course also provides explanations, student writing models, and meaningful practice opportunities. In the latter half of the course, students will move from creating sentences to creating meaningful paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences.
During the course, writing tasks will focus on writing as yourself for the teacher, and the process will involve gathering ideas, organizing ideas, and turning these ideas into written text. Corrective feedback will be given and submitted texts will be edited.