Is your homeschooler thinking about going to college when they graduate high school? Is your homeschooler worried about their writing skills measuring up to college standards? Perhaps your homeschooler is concerned about getting into college in the first place? College Writing and Vocabulary, an elective homeschooling course, will help homeschoolers develop your skills in writing, specifically for the college environment. This course will prepare homeschoolers for writing essays for college applications as well as help homeschoolers with general writing skills for coursework, papers, essays and exams in the college writing-intensive courses.
Course Outline:
1: Introduction to the Course
2: Fundamentals of Effective Writing
3: Writing Topics
4: Writing Styles
5: Thesis
6: Parts of Speech
7: Sentence Type/Punctuation
8: Grammar Review
9: Common Mistakes
10: Combining and Rewriting Sentences
11: Plain English Writing
12: Write the Way You Talk
13: Organization and Layout
14: Academic Writing
15: Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Combining Sources
16: Re-writing and Proof Reading
17: Writing the Introduction
18: Essay Writing
19: Compare/Contrast Essay
20: Compare/Contrast Essay Week II
21: Understanding the Question
22: Autobiographical Narrative Week 1
23: Autobiographical Narrative Week 2
24: Expository Essay Week 1
25: Expository Essay Week 2
26: Persuasive Essay Week 1
27: Persuasive Essay Week 2
28: Using the Internet and Writing Letters
29: Cover Letter Week 1
30: Cover Letter Week 2
31: Ad Campaign Week 1
32: Ad Campaign Week 2
33: Ad Campaign Week 3
34: Review Week
35: Exam Week
36: Ad Campaign Week 4