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Words! Words build, words heal, words bring things into existence and words kill! Words bring some things to light while obscuring others.
Advanced English Composition
Day -
8:45-
Tuesday and Thursdays
• Writing with Power
• Writing Under Pressure
• Writing for Pleasure
The first step in writing a good research paper is identity.
• From what location are the questions poised and to what end?
The second step is actually doing the research.
• Where and how can you collect reliable data?
We also contrast how culture and oppression define who or what is "competent and legitimate authority."
AYA's Advanced English Composition course introduces students to valuable research
sources and techniques, while also providing writing instruction for a range of non-
In addition to new methods for gathering information and tips on the use of electronic sources, students will also get expert advice on crafting:
• Essays • Abstracts • Arguments • Technical papers • Business papers
Featuring interviews with published authors, a simulated newscast / talk show, and
a friendly, informative African-
The class meets twice a week. Lab time with your classmates in our exclusive online space is required.
Together, you'll learn how to research and to use your pen or keyboard to shape ideas and opinions that will improve our world.
Grammar?
Well, we still emphasize it in Advanced Composition.
We just use our Afrikan cultural strengths to do it. Here's a question that gives you some clue to how we do it.
Question 1: If "movement" and "essence" or "realness" are high cultural values, how can we use these to guide our learning grammar rules and how English grammar works?
Question 2: If “function” before form” is a key cultural value of our people, how can we use that to accelerate our becoming proficient at English Grammar?
Question 3: Could it be that contrasting English grammar with the grammar of an Afrikan
Language grammar of say -
It's in there..... That's it, now you're thinking in the AYA way.
Join us to find out just how we use our African cultural strengths to make grammar fun and relevant.
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•5 Theories: Students produce a paper to explain and defend their theories of education, personality development, conflict resolution, spirituality/theology, and how we remove those Europeans and their surrogates from power over us.
•Creative Writing: See sample from one of our students-
