Step-By-Step Guide to Amazing Essay Writing
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In this course, you will discover how to:
- Create more effective thesis statements for your essays,
- Plan and write compare/contrast, cause/effect, and argument essays,
- Craft well developed sentences,
- Write well-developed body paragraphs.
This course will especially help prepare you for work in college and university classes.
However anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills, essay and email writing can benefit from this course.
You will need to know about spelling, sentence structure, grammar and punctuation before starting this course.
You should be willing to practise, practise and practise to assist you learn how to achieve what this program will teach you.
Learning how to write an effective essay can assist us with our school grades and impact the rest of our lives. Learning to write compelling documents can assist us engage with others in a more effective manner. This often creates more effective outcomes.
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Introduction to Essay WritingIn this course, you'll learn all about academic essay writing and, specifically, how to write three types of essays: compare/contrast, cause/effect, and argument. Enjoy!
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Ethical Policy of Academia
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Intoduction to Academic Essay
At the end of this video lecture, you should be able to explain what an academic essay is, identify the parts of an academic essay and explain what each part of an academic essay is for.
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Quiz
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The Introductory Paragraph in an Essay
The introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of your essay. What does it do? It introduces the main idea of your essay. A good opening paragraph captures the interest of your reader and tells why your topic is important.
At the end of this video lecture, you should be able to identify the parts of an introduction paragraph and explain the purpose of an introduction paragraph in academic essays.
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Identifying a Good Thesis Statement
This Quiz will help you with identifying a good thesis statement. Click YES if the statement is good, and NO if it is a weak thesis statement.
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The Body Paragraph in an Essay
A body paragraph is a group of related sentences about a particular topic or idea directly relating to the thesis. Because essays are composed of multiple body paragraphs, writing and organizing goodparagraphs is one of the most important aspects of creating a well-organized and developed essay.
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Quiz
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Basic Paragraph Structure
A basic paragraph structure usually consists of five sentences: the topic sentence, three supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.
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Thesis:1 Identifying Topic Sentence
This quiz will help you with identifying good topic sentences.
Do the topic sentences support the thesis statement? Select YES for strong sentence and NO for weak sentence.
Thesis:1 "There are three major differences between British English and American English"
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Thesis:2 Identifying Topic Sentence
This quiz will help you with identifying good topic sentences.
Do the topic sentences support the thesis statement? Select YES for strong sentence and NO for weak sentence.
Thesis:2 "Children of divorced parents should be able to live with whichever parent they want to live with.
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Thesis:3 Identifying Topic Sentence
This quiz will help you with identifying good topic sentences.
Do the topic sentences support the thesis statement? Select YES for strong sentence and NO for weak sentence.
Thesis:3 "If someone is worried about being a boring person, he should make sure he doesn't fall into the categories given in these questions"
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Practice Quiz
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Writing a Good Conclusion Paragraph
There are several ways that you can write a conclusion paragraph. One way you can write a conclusion is to summarize the major points from the body of your essay. You can also restate the thesis. You can also end your conclusion with a final thought for your reader to think about. Do not state new information in your conclusion. You should state all of your new information in the body of the essay. So if you think of something else that you want to say, don't put it in the conclusion.
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Writing a Coclusion Paragraph
