Full course description
This is a REd Synchronous (live) class.
LIVE SESSION: LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, November 24, 2025 @11:00am - 12:00pm, Mountain Time (US and Canada), Zoom.
This class focuses on enhancing your writing skills through the effective use of punctuation and parallelism. You will learn how to vary sentence structures, craft strong paragraphs, and use punctuation to improve clarity and impact in your writing. Whether you're refining academic writing or elevating research proposals, this class will provide the tools and techniques to make your writing more compelling and precise.
Objectives:
- Learn how to vary sentence structure for dynamic writing.
- Understand the importance of crafting strong, coherent paragraphs.
- Develop skills to use punctuation effectively.
- Apply parallelism to improve readability and flow.
- Analyze examples of well-structured writing.
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Instructor
Vasiliki Karahalios, M.F.A
Grant Specialist
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REd Synchronous classes are taught by subject matter experts, and provide both fundamental and advanced skills training in flipped classroom format. These classes are offered live (currently, via Zoom), wherein participants will attend and participate in the 1-hour live lecture/presentation. Participants will be required to work pre-class and post-class activities outside the classroom. These activities can include: readings, videos, etc.
Class Duration: Total duration for synchronous classes are approximately 2 hours. Those two (2) hours will be broken down into:
- A live session which will take approximately 1 hour (45-minute presentation and 15-minute Q&A) and;
- Pre and Post-work activities which will take approximately 1 hour, in total.