Upon completion of the program, students will be able to...
- Use reading techniques such as context and scanning to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words and information
- Identify features of writing such as topic sentences, supporting details, and other organizational features of paragraphs
- Recognize elements of writing such as parts of speech and sentences, simile, metaphor, imagery, inference, bias, and the elements of fiction
- Recognize nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and other parts of speech
- Identify correct usage of words and parts of a sentence such as plurals, prepositions, and punctuation
- Differentiate between independent and dependent clauses, and identify correct use of sentence structure
- Compose a unified and fully-developed paragraph free of common errors
- Write a three-to-five paragraph factual composition with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion, and a formal business letter on the topic of a complaint
- Comprehend the skills necessary to write an effective essay, such as correct word usage, avoiding run-on sentences, and professional tone
- Write a coherent, well-organized personal essay of between 750 and 2,500 words that is free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors