Course Overview: Writing Techniques

This course develops students’ academic writing skills through a progressive and practice-oriented approach.

Semester 1 focuses on writing foundations, including sentence structure, common writing problems, paragraph organization, and the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, and feedback).

Semester 2 builds on these skills by introducing key rhetorical paragraph types (narration, description, comparison/contrast, argumentation, classification, and definition), with emphasis on clear organization, coherence, and revision.

Writing is treated as a recursive process, enabling students to improve accuracy, clarity, and academic style through continuous practice.