COURSES
Identifying and Integrating Key Quotations
This intensive, four-week, reading and writing course is recommended for high school students (grades 9-12) and first year university students.
Parents breathing down your neck? Inner voice screaming, “I don’t know what to do, how to get better!” Don’t struggle needlessly in your English classes anymore!
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If you haven't been taught how to identify and integrate important quotations into your writing, maybe this is the reason you haven't been getting the grades you need.
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If you can refer to someone else’s words and ideas in a fluid, free-flowing manner, a reader will be appreciative, but a teacher will be impressed. Your ideas will unfold clearly and logically. Your writing will come across as well-controlled. Your marks will improve.
Level up with Fraser Valley English’s premier course, specifically designed to meet the needs of students who want to achieve more but don't know how.
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A maximum of twelve students may enrol in this course. Shortly after enrolment, you will be emailed a username and password to access the MS Teams online meetings.
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Contact us at fraservalleyenglish@gmail.com to request a specific day of the week or month.
Logic and Critical Thinking:
Level One and Level Two
This course is recommended for high school students to help them sharpen their critical thinking skills and make better arguments in their writing.
How do we know what we know? How do with derive “truth” from an onslaught of information? A lot of information comes at us. How do we unpack it?
At the start of this course (Level One), you will learn about the persuasive techniques of ethos, pathos, and logos. You'll see how these techniques can be used to create convincing, logical arguments in your writing and how they can be misused in advertising and propaganda.
Understanding logic, reasoning, and persuasive techniques can help you verify the validity arguments and information.
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By the end of the course (Level Two), you will have learned common logical fallacies through examples and exercise work. The fallacies will become familiar to you because the purpose "Logic and Critical Thinking" is to open your eyes to the mistakes speakers and writers make all around you, every day – also, to show you these mistakes so you can avoid them in your own arguments.
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This course is offered in two parts, each consisting of two, 2 hour sessions.
A maximum of twelve students may enrol in this course. Shortly after enrolment, you will be emailed a username and password to access the MS Teams online meetings.
Writing Good Sentences - Transforming Your Style
This extensive eight-to-twelve week writing course is recommended for high school students (grades 9-12), university students, and anyone wishing to improve their stylistic flair in writing.
Styling Sentences Is What Writing Good Sentences Is About
Imagine getting dressed for the party-of-the-year and instead of carefully putting together the perfect outfit, you just reach into your collection of your comfy clothes and pull out the first bits of this and that you find. You are not exactly dressed for success, are you?
The same thing goes for your writing: it needs to be dressed for success! There are choices to be made, items to try on -- yikes! -- items to take off.
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When it comes to clothes, we all know what it means to dress up. We’ve done it. However, few know what it means, let alone what it takes, to dress up our writing.
Dressing up ourselves? No problem! Dressing up our ideas? What does that even mean?
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First and foremost, dressing a sentence for optimal effect is about precision and choice. Embrace the fun challenge of picking a word or crafting sentence structure for a specific effect: to attract attention, to provide clarity, to establish mood, to provoke an emotional reaction, to instigate thought.
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Writing is form of art, so be free and get creative.
Writing, however, is also a skill, and as with any skill, practice makes perfect. So, practice. Listen to your coach. Reflect, revise, and practice some more.
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Through it all, though, never lose sight of the fact that good writing is a creative art, meant to create a spark of joy, a sense of craftsmanship and the pride of accomplishment.
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With this in mind, sculpt your sentences. Dress them properly. Give them flow because when your ideas walk into the room you want your audience to gasp and say, “Wow!”
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COURSE DATES TBA Contact us at fraservalleyenglish@gmail.com
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