Free Weekly Writing Practice
Join us every [Day of Week] in [location] from [Beginning Time] to [endtime].
- Improve Your Writing Fluency
- Learn to Dodge Banned Errors
- Improve Your Sentences
- Prepare for the WPE (Writing Proficiency Exam)
Spring 2010 Writing Practice Schedule:
| Date | Topic |
| Unit 1: The Basic Sentence: Analyzing the Writing Assignment | |
| Unit 2: Sentence Focus: Brainstorming | |
| Unit 3: Joining Sentences with Coordinators; Organizing Ideas in Essays | |
| Unit 4: Joining Sentences with Subordinators: Crafting Thesis Statements | |
| Unit 5: Joining Sentences to Show Comparison and Contrast: Beginnings and Endings | |
| Unit 6: Joining Sentences to Show Concession: Developing Supporting Paragraphs | |
| Unit 7: Showing Logical Relationships with Transitions; Revising Essays | |
| Unit 8: Joining Parallel Structures: Revising Student Essays* (bring an essay of your own) | |
| Unit 9: Modifying Nouns with Adjectives: Editing Essays (bring an essay of your own) | |
| Unit 10: Modifying Nouns with Prepositional Phrases; Proofreading Essays* (bring an essay) | |
| Unit 11: Modifying Nouns with Apositves; Revising Sentences from students' work | |
| Unit 12: Modifying Nouns with Adjective Clauses; Exploring Sentence Options (bring essay) | |
| Unit 13: Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases | |
| Unit 14: Reviewing Sentence Construction Techniques |
Required Text:
Altman et al., Sentence Combining Workbook. 3rd Ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4282-6380-2. Available in LTU Bookstore and online.
For further information, call 248.204.3555 or e-mail nabbas@ltu.edu.