This course introduces students to basic writing skills in English for both academic and non-academic purposes. The course will consider issues relating to accuracy in writing such as the sentence and its parts; simple, coordinate and complex sentences; agreement within sentences; joining sentences, pronouns, using words with similar meanings to avoid repetition; the past tense and time adverbs; and use of words in writing. Students will also be introduced to techniques in writing simple stories; the personal letter; describing events, people and places; and paragraph development.