How to write an essay

by Maggie Sokolik

How to write an essay, Workbook 1

This workbook accompanies the online course, College Writing 2.1x, How to write an essay, the first of two courses offered by College Writing Programs of the University of California, Berkeley. You can find the course on the edx.org website

This workbook offers additional ways to practice writing, editing, and reviewing the materials for the online course.

If you have purchased this workbook and are not taking the course, you may still find use for the materials. However, it should be noted that the course is offered free of charge, so look for the schedule on the http://edx.org website and join the live course.

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About the author

Maggie Sokolik holds a BA in Anthropology from Reed College, and an MA in Romance Linguistics and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She is the author of over thirty ESL and composition textbooks. She has taught at MIT, Harvard, Texas A&M, and currently UC Berkeley, primarily in College Writing Programs, where she his the Director of College Writing Programs. Most recently, she developed and taught the MOOC course “How to Write an Essay,” through edX (http://edX.org) and in partnership with the US Department of State; this course enrolled over 130,000 students in its first year. She is the founding editor of TESL-EJ (http://tesl-ej.org), a peer-reviewed journal for ESL/EFL professionals, one of the first online journals--nearing its 20th anniversary. Maggie travels frequently to speak about grammar, writing, and instructor education.