Developing Writing Skills in Adults

Writing is a complicated process, and even experienced writers may feel anxiety and nervousness when facing a writing assignment. This course will help you guide your learners through the writing process, from just getting words on paper (or screen) through pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and presenting their work. Along the way, participants will learn instructional and feedback strategies and do some writing of their own.

Course Objectives

• Identify and describe the stages of the writing process
• Identify research-based strategies for writing instruction and incorporate them into their own practice
• Understand the roles of revision and editing
• Create activities and lesson plans for adult learners that address different stages of the writing process

Each lesson addresses a different aspect of the writing process or of writing instruction. Course activities include readings, assignments, discussions, and opportunities for instructors to develop and share their own writing.

• Why Write?
• Pre-Writing
• Writing the First Draft
• Strategies for Writing Instruction
• Radical Revision
• Editing: Style and Conventions
• Writing and Special Populations
• Presentation and Publication

Completion of the course is designed to require a minimum of 40 hours of your time, approximately four hours for each week. However, you may find that you want to spend longer with some topics.

Because the course is designed for busy professionals, it is scheduled over several weeks to allow time to work through the materials and complete the course according to your schedule.

In order to receive the certificate for participating in the Developing Writing Skills in Adults training, you must read all lessons, respond to all discussion questions, and complete each assignment. Remember that, although you will gain from doing the activities, you will learn most from discussions with your online colleagues and facilitator. To keep our discussions as productive as possible, you must stay within the timeframe outlined for this course. You and your colleagues across the state will be working via the Internet with an instructor who will help answer questions, provide resources, and help you evaluate your progress throughout the workshop.

• information to review;
• important resources including websites to visit, explore, and/or bookmark;
• online discussions for you and your webmates to reflect upon and participate in; and,
• assignments to complete for review by the online course facilitator and your fellow participants.

As part of the registration process, we ask that you go through a short tutorial on online learning in order to better prepare yourself for success.

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