Basic English Writing Class: Week 1

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Welcome to the writing class. It hope you enjoy this class and I hope your English writing skills will improve.

This week we have many things to do:

  1. introduce course
  2. look at syllabus
  3. review a few basic writing tools
  4. practice error correction
  5. learn new vocabulary
  6. watch a video and write a summary
  7. write a story about a place

Syllabus

Here is the course syllabus: writing class syllabus.

Writing about a Place

This worksheet has one short paragraph. It describes a person’s experience on the subway. The writing gives the reader a good picture of the what we can hear, see and smell in a subway. Read the story. Look closely at the verbs the writer uses to help us understand the place. It is a good example of an old writing rule: don’t tell me about the subway, show me the subway with words. BTW, what are the five  human senses?

Now it’s your turn to write. You will write a one paragraph story.

  1. Choose a place which has many different senses.
  2. Brainstorm a list of verbs, nouns and adjectives.
  3. Start writing one paragraph.
  4. Read, edit and rewrite.

Good luck.