Saturday, January 24, 2015
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Give the Gift of Education!
Give the gift of education! Enroll in my online classes for only $25 until Christmas Day!
Use the coupon code: HOLIDAY25
Click any title below to preview the class:
- Grammar Essentials
- Proofreading Power
- College Writing Essentials
- Spelling Rules Refresher
- Beyond Basic Grammar
- Writing for the Classroom
Click the "Gift" link to the right of the course description on the landing page or just take the class yourself!
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Writing for the Classroom Online Class
Writing for the Classroom
Master public school common core and first-year college writing standards with video lectures and practice exercises.
Writing for the Classroom is extremely valuable to students, parents and teachers in today's public school and college classrooms.
This course answers two fundamental questions:
What am I expected to write?
How do I write what is expected of me?
Writing for the Classroom covers the following topics:
- What Is Good Writing?
- How to Write Sentences
- How to Write Paragraphs
- The Writing Process
- Thesis Statements
- How to Write Thesis Statements
- How to Type APA Format
- How to Type MLA Format
- Basic Research Skills
- How to Conduct Online Research
- Recognizing Plagiarism
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Google Docs & Peer Review
- Google Docs: Suggesting & Commenting
- College Writing Guidelines & Expectations
- Writing in 3rd Person vs. First Person
- Formal Writing vs. Informal Writing
Common Composition Essays:
- Argument Essay
- Cause & Effect
- Narration
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Beyond Basic Grammar: Improve Your Writing Style
Boost your personal and professional writing skills by adding variety, complexity and sophistication to your sentences.
Beyond Basic Grammar teaches you how to improve your writing style. This course focuses on the art of writing and how to develop complex, sophisticated sentences. Learn and practice the skills that separate beginning writers from the more advanced.
What does this course cover?
- Sentence Structure: Subject & Object Complements
- Sentence Balance: Parallel Structures
- Combining Sentences: Coordination & Subordination
- Fixing Choppy Sentences
- Shifts in Verb Tense
- Active/ Passive Voice
- Shifts in Person
- Sentence Variety
- More Sentence Variety: (past participle modifiers, appositives, Relative clauses)
- Avoiding Vague Language
- Streamlining wordy phrases & clichés
Click the link below to preview and enroll in the class at a discount:
Spelling Rules Online Class
Spelling Rules Refresher
Boost your writing skills with this fun, practical review of American spelling rules.
How confident are you in your ability to spell correctly? Are those simple proofreading errors or troublesome misspellings? How many spelling rules can you recall?
Do not allow language weaknesses to compromise your personal or professional message on social media or in the workplace. Correct spelling still matters!
Here is what you can expect to learn from this course:
- Essential American spelling rules
- Tips to improve your spelling
- Homophones & Homonyms
- Correct commonly misspelled words
- American Vs. British Spellings
- Fun, educational spelling exercises and quizzes.
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