Mandatory Courses for Writers and Editors

Gist of the Courses

1. Essentials of Written English
   • Covers over 200 principles of writing within 14 rules of writing
   • Each rule leads to the next one, and each principle leads to the next one
2. Sentence Patterns 1: The Restrictive–Nonrestrictive Conundrum
   • Teaches you how to identify what is essential and nonessential in a sentence
   • Provides 20 patterns to help you grasp the most important convention in the English language
3. Sentence Patterns 2: The Number of Subjects and the Number of Associated Actions
   • Examines the interplay of simple sentences, introductory constructions, and compound sentences, and the 33 structural patterns that emerge from their interplay
   • Helps you understand what it means to read a sentence generically and specifically (and thus understand the content and relationships as intended)
4. Sentence Component Analysis and Identification
   • Combines all the learning gained in the first three courses on language (Essentials, Sentence Patterns 1 and 2)
   • Helps you identify and color-code every word (or set or words) in any sentence as belonging to one of 14 functional components that define sentence structure
   • Helps you master all aspects of verbs—and thus the concept of skim reading
5. Article Use in the English Language
   • Provides detailed instructions and guidance on an aspect that learners of English often struggle with
6. Aspects of Good Writing
   • Provides guidance on collecting material for your content, writing your draft, reviewing it, revising it, polishing it, and perfecting it
   • Based on a brilliantly written story, which is first enjoyed for the sheer joy it provides and then discussed bit by bit to summarize all the instructions

What's Unique about These Courses?

• Essentials of Written English
  • The 14 rules of writing may be learned from anywhere. But what's unique is the arrangement and the explanation of the rules—how each rule directly leads to the next
  • Now extrapolate the idea to 200 principles of writing, each one leading to the other—and that's when you'll see how unique the Essentials course is
• Sentence Patterns 1 and 2
  • These two courses are also one of a kind
  • You may find some of these patterns of sentence structure indicated in books and manuals as part of their way of explaining things from a certain perspective
  • But you will not find any book, manual, or course examining sentence structures and their functional aspects in such logical detail and that too all together in a single place
  • This is a radically different approach to teaching the English language, which will become evident when one moves on to the next course
• Sentence Component Analysis and Identification
  • This course brings together and applies everything that was learned in the first three courses
  • Tremendous clarity is provided by color coding every functional component of a sentence and relating the structure of every sentence to one or more of 53 patterns that were learned earlier
  • Everything will fall into place on its own—everything except verbs
  • A full-blown discussion of verbs is then initiated, and all possible questions are addressed
  • At this point, you would have mastered skim reading
  • You'll be delighted by the sheer number of topics covered—sentence components and their function, sentence structure and patterns, verbs, tenses, voice, modals, skim reading—and the clarity, logic, and simplicity by which all these concepts are woven together
  • The uniqueness of the approach lies in its use of logic, color coding of the functional components of a sentence, and identification with structural patterns to explain and connect the functional components of the sentence
  • Grammar rules are introduced later to support and strengthen what was learned and to point out the pitfalls that were avoided by using the new approach