Overview

Welcome to the Essentials of Effective Writing.

This course is designed to help you to understand and apply the writing process. You will be studying the basics of correct grammar and the mechanics to write correct sentences, strong paragraphs and short academic essays.

After successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

- Write complete sentences using correct word choice, grammar, and punctuation.

- Write well-developed paragraphs.

- Apply writing skills to develop short, well-constructed essays.

If this your first online course you're taking at Regis, be sure to investigate the course, making yourself comfortable with its design.

Each Week you will find materials and instruction for the Essentials for Effective Writing. Each week you will find:

-Some text for you to read

within this online course
within your Century textbook

Your EN200 Syllabus

Week One - The Art of Beginning to Write

Week Two - Writing Right

Week Three - The Logic of Cause and Effect / Sentence Patterns

Week Four - Fallacies, Peeves, Pronouns, Diction

Week Five - Introduce, Compare, Define, Classify, Conclude

Week Six - Voice to Persuade - Playin' with Diction

Week Seven - Stylin' or Styling

Week Eight - Editing - The World of Recursion

English: Where Did It Come From and How Did It Get this Way?

English is the language with the most words in the entire world. Do you feel lucky to be able to express yourself in this wonderful language?

"About 1,500 years ago, the English language consisted of a somewhat obscure set of dialects spoken by a few thousand inhabitants strung along the coast of western Denmark and northwest Germany. Today, English is the native language of more than 450 million inhabitants of the earth and the second language of another 400 million people. As such, it can truly be called a world language. Like all language, English is in a state of continual change." - Thomas Mauch, Ph.D., retired professor of Colorado College.