Writing Composition: B2.

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The argumentative essay
Week 1: Training session for assistants
Week 2: The basics: The sentence
-Begin each sentence with a capital letter.
-End each sentence with a period.
-Use capital letters only with proper names, the pronoun 'I', and the first letter of the first word in each
sentence. (Include other words that use capital letters)
-Basic sentence structure is Subject + Verb + Complement.
*Exercises
Week 3: The basics: Punctuation
*Exercises
Week 4: The basics: Parts of speech
-Nouns
-Verbs
-Adjectives
-Adverbs
*Exercises
Week 5: The paragraph
-Paragraph structure
*Exercises
-The APA Guidelines
Week 6: The argumentative essay
-What is an argumentative essay?
-The 5 paragraph essay
Week 7 Writing a compare/contrast essay
The intro
-The topic sentence
-The thesis statement
Week 8 Writing the intro
Week 10 Writing an argumentative essay
The body
-Paragraph 2
-Paragraph 3
-Paragraph 4
Week 11 Writing an argumentative essay
Writing paragraph 2
Week 12 Writing an argumentative essay
Writing paragraph 3
Week 13 Writing an argumentative essay
Writing paragraph 4
Week 14 Writing an argumentative essay
The conclusion
Week 15 Writing the conclusion

Week 16 Final draft