This course will teach you the basics of writing an argument and give you the opportunity to practice writing 3 essays that you will submit for feedback! This course is for native speakers who are students in grades 6-college and English learners who are in grades 6-adults.

The course begins with an introduction to the writing process and practice with it. Then you will learn the basics of an argument essay, all about claims and counterclaims, and how to write them. You will be given plenty of opportunity to write examples of claims and I will provide feedback along the way.

Then you will be shown how to actually follow the writing process to write an argument essay and again, you will be given plenty of practice with feedback. The main activities, which have the fewest videos, but will take the most time, are writing two complete argument essays in two different formats. The first is a prompt-based essay in which you will choose between two prompts I have given you. The second is a passage-based essay in which I will give you a passage and you will read the passage and formulate an idea based on what you read and the question that I give you. You will follow the writing process for both of these and, again, be provided with feedback along the way before you finally publish your pieces. By the end of the course, you will know how to write both a prompt and passage-based argument essay and have examples for any portfolio you may want them for.