Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade (Fundamental English Writing)

Introduction to the course with a course navigation tutorial; strategies for being successful in the course and in any online learning environment; information about how you might make your success in the course useful in your future educational experience.

The eight main parts of speech; why knowing the parts of speech will help your writing; the sentence; observing the world.

Another way of looking at the parts of speech -- the building materials put to use in the structure of the sentence; gerunds, imperatives, and infinitives; thinking about verb tense and voice; regular and irregular verbs; building your confidence with empowered sentences. 

Adding to your basic sentences with clauses and phrases;combining ideas and creating complexity; the four sentence types; creating your writing style. 

The writing process; revision vs. editing; punctuation, spelling, and commonly confused words; writing a paragraph.