Taught by John Jenkins.

This class will be on Monday or Tuesday.

Effective Writing is an honors-optional class teaches college and professional writing techniques that develop a student’s critical thinking, research and organizing skills, natural writing voice, and effective communication through essays. Class includes SAT timed essay preparation and practice.

Students will learn how to: 1) research and select effective essay/paper topics, 2) organize, plan, and structure a paper, 3) understand and avoid plagiarism through documenting sources with footnotes, 4) write and rewrite a paper using accepted college formats, and 5) use techniques for developing original thinking so that every paper is written with purpose. This class can be taken as an Honor’s class with additional reading, research and writing required.

PREREQUISITES. Introduction to Effective Writing or ability to write complete sentences and paragraphs, basic grammar, spelling, capitalization, double-spacing, indents and formatting rules, including footnotes.

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