Writing Composition

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to identify proper grammar in writing related to verbs and subjects, subject-verb agreement, phrases and clauses, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, pronoun use and agreement, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and parallel structure.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective strategies for organizing and writing compare-contrast, cause and effect, and argument essays.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective strategies for organizing and writing definition, classification, and process essays.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective strategies for organizing and writing descriptive, narrative, and example essays.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain plagiarism including strategies for avoiding it in writing and correctly documenting a variety of types of research notes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the concept of a thesis for an essay and an effective structure to support the thesis.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to identify proper use of punctuation in sentences.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the importance and strategies for analyzing, revising, proofreading, and formatting an essay.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective strategies for organizing and writing summaries.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose, inclusions, and effective characteristics to write the introduction, body, and conclusion of an essay.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective processes and strategies for conducting research.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the writing process including activities required for each step.

This credential documents competencies in basic writing tasks including how to write using basic grammar and punctuation, how to write with style, how to follow a logical writing process and plan a writing project, how to revise and proofread writing, and how to effectively format a writing piece.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies for writing excellent sentences that have style and including varied structure, varied length, and proper word choices.