Clear and Descriptive Writing

WRITCOM X 401

Master sentences, shape strong paragraphs, and develop compelling pieces through the exercises in this course for adults who want to brush up on their written communication skills for everyday life.

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What you can learn.

Focus on the basics of the sentence and the paragraph
Understand how tone, voice, and diction can affect your meaning, and how to use these elements for success
Complete exercises and assignments that allow you to practice lessons from class

About this course:

Clear and Descriptive Writing focuses on the basics of sentence and paragraph, providing tools to enable clear, focused and descriptive essays and other writing objectives. Starting with focused sentence exercises, you move toward creating clear, thoughtful and organized paragraphs that employ tone, voice and diction. As well as completing exercises and writing assignments, you collect examples of writing—both effective and ineffective—to present to the class in order to share and examine writing strategies. Toward the end of the class, students develop one essay-length piece of writing. In workshop groups, you hone this piece and help classmates improve their work. You leave with skills you can apply in various settings and with different writing projects.