<p>I want to take a summer course in writing/reading to spruce up my writing skills before I enter college in August. What would be a course I could take over summer that's not too demanding and will help me out with my writing skills. If I could get a credit that would be good, but I'm really going for self -help purposes more so than the grade.</p>
<p>Any recommendations or advice? Please.</p>
<p>Something that helps you with critical thinking and reading. I would recommend expository writing, but it is a pretty challenging course.</p>
<p>Hey Disgrace, I've always heard from teachers that the best way to learn to write is to just dive right in. To that end, Wikipedia was really helpful the summer before my senior year; I learned about copy-editing, researching, assessing, and a few other things. Since my subject's life and involvement in politics stretched from pre-1812 to just before the Civil War, it was immensely helpful in understanding that part of U.S. History in preparation for AP testing; it's just too bad that the test this year focused much more on post-Civil War America up to and including the Progressive age than before it. </p>
<p>Still, I worked on my article and right before school started, it reached Featured Article status (I took a month off in July). So writing, not just reading Wikipedia to cram for a test or dash off one night only essays, really improved my writing and knowledge almost as much as the entire course of AP English. In preparation for next year, I would definitely recommend that in lieu of a summer course. If you submit your article for peer review, Good Article, or Featured Article, you are sure to get great feedback on your prose, use of references, sentence structure, and all the rest.</p>
<p>So that's my suggestion to you and it's the epitome of self-help, methinks. Now that school is essentially over (post-AP) I'm about ready to start on this summers chosen subject. Maybe I'll even do two....</p>
<p>The course that you recommended starts May 29, and my school only ends June 20. That's a problem - unless i take expository composition? You have any course recommendations that are in summer session II or start in July?</p>