25 Hour Academic Writing Skills Course

Twenty five pounds might sound like a lot, but for your money you will be getting 24 hours of materials to use in class, and a quiz designed to take students an hour, which means for your money you will be getting a lot. It works out at one pound per hour in class (+ the additional homework in the workbook), which is a more than fair price.

The course is designed to prepare students for writing assignments at university, as that is the key skill required by the majority of majors.

The 24 hour course covers all the skills students need to write high level university papers of any kind. This includes writing reports, along with argumentative, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive essays. How to analyze a question and narrow the topic down in order to focus the thesis statement correctly. This will be done alongside looking at how to take notes in class, so that the information can be used to write the first draft of the assignment. Finally plagiarism is a major issue at university, so the ability to cite sources found online or in text-books and journals correctly is essential for every university student. Classes will also look at all four main citation styles – MLA, APA, CMS and Harvard.

You will get detailed lesson plans and PPTs to cover the following classes with detailed lesson plans.
Topic 1 - Essay Styles
1.1 - Introduction to the course & different types of essays
1.2 - Structuring Essays part one
1.3 - Structuring Essays part two
Topic 2 - Question types
2.1 - Different types of questions
2.2 - Topic - Focus - Instruction
2.3 - Thesis Statements
Topic 3 - Note Taking
3.1 - Different Styles
3.2 - In Class Practice
3.3 - SQ3R
Topic 4 - Researching
4.1 - Traditional Methods
4.2 - Online Methods
4.3 - Researching
Topic 5 - Drafting
5.1 - Writing Structures
5.2 - Writing with Unity
5.3 - Revising a draft
Topic 6 - Plagiarism
6.1 - Why and how not to plagiarize
6.2 - Paraphrasing
6.3 - Turnitin & Hedging
Topic 7 - Citations
7.1 - MLA Style
7.2 - APA Style
7.3 - CMS & Harvard Style
Topic 8 - Bibliographies
8.1 - Reference Lists
8.2 - Annotated Bibliographies
8.3 - Review Game

In addition there is a workbook for students to use which is available in Word format along with editable pdf and standard pdf.

The course can then be finished with a one hour quiz consisting of multiple choice questions and short answer ones.
Quiz is provided in an interactive pdf file and standard Word and pdf formats

NOTE: Everything you need to teach the entire 24 hour class is in the zip file except a TED talk for lesson 3.2 In class note taking practice - the link for the one I use is in the file.

If you are not sure if this resource is for you, a zip file containing all of the files necessary to teach topic 2 is available here.

The workbook is also available for individual purchase here