From the course: College Prep: Writing a Strong Essay
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Transferring your writing skills to academic tasks
From the course: College Prep: Writing a Strong Essay
Transferring your writing skills to academic tasks
- So I hope at this point you'll agree that what you've learned from this course will help you to write a stronger college application essay. But that's not all. There's a bonus. You can also apply what you've learned from this course to help you to write better papers, essays and lab reports both in high school and moving ahead into your college coursework and beyond. Good writing is good writing, and although we tend to focus much more on improving the written product, what we should spend more time on is improving the writer. As you start to pay more attention to the principles of rhetoric such as audience an purpose, you will automatically become a better writer. But becoming a better writer is not just using correct grammar and punctuation. Although these elements are certainly a part of effective writing. What is far more important is an awareness of your role as a writer and the process you use to express your thoughts through words. So many students sit down to write about…
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