Essay Writing

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Essay writing assumes that the student has a basic mastery of English usage and mechanics. After a brief review of usage and mechanics, this course would spend a great deal of time emphasizing critical thinking and logic skills, which are necessary in order to critique or write a college-level essay. This course would also emphasize the writing styles appropriate for various audiences. The majority of the writing assignments would consist of journal entries and five-paragraph essays. There would also be an emphasis on basic research methods and techniques for writing research essays.