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ESL Basic Writing Skills
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion.
Course Cost: 6 Month Subscription
Basic Course (no certificate)   =   $35.00
Course with Certificate & CEUs   =   $60.00
Earn a certificate and CEUs upon successful completion (additional shipping/handling charges apply for hard copy delivery). UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions, and a Certificate Verification Service you can use so others may view and verify the authenticity of your awards.
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Course Description

ESL Basic Writing
Communication is vital in today's society. It is not enough to merely be able to speak and understand spoken English. In the United States, writing English is often a necessary skill in many job industries and fields. In order to develop practical writing skills, one must understand the basics of English grammar and sentence structure. Learning essential vocabulary and continually expanding knowledge is one of the best ways to succeed, both in personal and professional lives.

 

Learning how to write English may be difficult for many individuals, and takes much practice and patience. ESL students as well as native English speakers who wish to improve their writing skills need to have a basic understanding of grammar structure, tense usage, vocabulary, and how to commit thought processes and ideas onto paper.

 

This ESL basic writing course will help you improve your writing skills through lesson plans and samples that explain many grammatical style rules and functions in easy-to-understand examples and usage.

 

This course will also help students learn to write natural and clear sentences, as well as composing personal and business letters to help increase job skills and communication. Increasing proficiency in clarity not only in the spoken but written language is an important part of the basic human necessity known as communication.

 

In order to write well, students must practice concepts that involve grammatical structure, voice, style, and vocabulary usage. This course will carefully guide you through the basic structures and rules of the English-language and focus on improving skills that are necessary in order to write clearly and accurately.

Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: Introduction to ESL Basic Writing

Learning to create and write basic English is a requirement for many job skills and careers. Nearly every job industry in the United States requires some English-speaking and writing skills.

Lesson 2: Beginning to Write

This lesson will cover the basics of English grammar that will help to increase reading comprehension and writing ability.

Lesson 3: Increasing Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension enables a person who is learning a language or one who wishes to improve their language skills to be able to gain more from reading in a variety of subject matters.

Lesson 4: Increasing Your Vocabulary Power

Increasing vocabulary power is an excellent way to increase not only reading comprehension but also to increase writing capabilities and understanding.

Lesson 5: Basic Sentence Structure

While there are many different ways a sentence may be constructed, this lesson will focus on the basics in order to help students learning English or native English speakers to improve their writing capabilities in order to produce cohesive thoughts on pa

Lesson 6: Mastering Subject-Verb Agreement

This lesson will help to show students of English as well as native English speakers the importance of mastering subject-verb agreement in order to enhance speaking as well as writing English.

Lesson 7: Bonding Basics

Conjunctions link words, phrases, sentences made up of both dependent and independent clauses. There are several different kinds of conjunctions, all of which will be explained and explored in this lesson.

Lesson 8: Writing For Clarity

Sometimes, it takes more than an understanding of subjects, nouns, and verbs to create clear and consistent writing.This lesson will help to illustrate common problem areas when it comes to writing and putting thought processes down on paper.

Lesson 9: Writing Effectively

Students of English must learn how to put their thoughts on paper and to develop concepts and ideas while at the same time observing basic structure and grammar guidelines.

Lesson 10: Writing Personal and Business Letters

Understanding the difference between a personal and business letter and how to create each of them is the focus of this lesson.

Lesson 11: Organizing Your Thoughts

No matter what type of document you want to write, one of the most important writing necessities is to organize your thoughts.This lesson will explore various elements of style, as well as the importance of keeping any written content fresh and up-to-date

Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Merit
  2. Certificate of Academic Excellence
Certificates may be awarded by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student merit. To save your award and have a hard-copy delivered, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
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Course Title : ESL Basic Writing Skills
CEU Value :

1.0 (Continuing Education Units)

Course Number : 7550104
Course Type : General Education
Course URL :

http://esl.onlineclasses.com

Course Rating : Excellent Course! 4 Star Rating
Instructor :

Gina Johnson

Syllabus :

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Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :

Basic Course: $35

   

with CEUs & Certificate: $60

NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

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