Academic Writing (Online LIVE)

Hello! Thank you for the question - we do have descriptions for the individual topics, they're just a little tricky to view through ActivityHero. Thankfully, since you've asked me about specific courses, I can just provide them directly! :) Here are the relevant ones for this Spring and Summer: Practical Writers Bring purpose and excellence to your writing! Every piece of writing has a goal, whether it’s sharing your creativity or examining an academic topic, and in this class students learn to develop and tailor their writing styles to suit those goals. Students learn about different genres, audiences, and levels of formality in writing, all while practicing their writing in multiple fields. Experienced instructors, small classes! Response to Literature Master reading, refine writing, and advance crucial skills in academics! Response to Literature will teach students how to read passages and extract meaning - a skill that enables them to 'learn how to learn better' and make every part of school and life easier! By moving from reading to responding, students improve their skills in writing clearly, and develop their ability to form and express their words effectively! Experienced instructors, small classes! Descriptive Authors Bring your writing to life with colorful, vibrant, entrancing descriptions! Students learn to explore their vocabulary and use it in fun new ways, creating accurate and exciting descriptions – a skill vital for any writer. They learn about writing tools like metaphor and similes, how to make best use of their vocabulary and recognize the use of idioms, and master communicating confidently and creatively in writing! Experienced instructors, small classes! Narrative Writers Express your creativity and make your writing SHINE! Turn your imagination into complete stories by mastering the writing tools and narrative parts that every good story needs: Character, Plot, Setting, Narration, and your own unique style! Students learn from existing stories and create their own, practicing writing skills that are both practical and FUN! Experienced instructors, small classes! Student Publication Become a published author and perfect your writing skills! In this serious and seriously fun course, students create a complete writing project of their own design – and then revise and polish it to perfection before learning how to publish their work! They master editing, revision, focus, and other writing skills while learning about the publishing process and how to submit their work to publications open to student writing. Experienced instructors, small classes! -

For all our writing courses, our emphasis is on the writing process - developing ideas, organization, adding details and word choice, and yes, some grammar and sentence structure, however, the emphasis will be more on the writing process itself more so than the grammar mechanics. Think of it as the editing vs the revising process - we spend more time working with students on the revision process, as that is often the meatier part of writing skills students often need help with (writing strong introductions and conclusions, having clear and detailed evidence/events/arguments, and overall adding more descriptive language in their writing). For narrative writing specifically, we also emphasize developing the plot structure (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolutions), and approach narrative writing with both the personal narrative and/or the creative writing formats. Especially for our online classes, we strongly encourage students to email their writing to the instructor before class (ideally the night before) so that more detailed/specific feedback can be given. Otherwise, feedback is giving in real-time during class either through screen share and/or students verbally reading their writings out loud. Hope that helps clarify any questions you may have! If you have more questions, please feel free to call our email us! -

Hello! It was a pleasure connecting with you via phone just now, and I wanted to reply to this message here as well. In short, yes! We definitely do work with writing organization and development of ideas in the students' writing in our academic writing courses. We keep our class sizes small on purpose to allow for that more personalized experience and feedback from our instructors. As discussed over the phone, you may find that the once-a-week classes would be a good fit for continual practice of concepts instead of just one week of one-hour classes. As mentioned, many of our students tend to take multiple weeks of week-long classes to build on the consistency and practice of the writing skills learned. In case you have any further questions, you are always welcome to email or call us directly. Please let us know if we can help in any other way! -