近年来，顶级美高美本的申请门槛逐年升高，虽然整体看人数并没有明显增加，但是学生越来越优秀，竞争越来越激烈。九成“申请党”表示：申录过程中最大挑战就是英语写作！英语写作无疑是制约华人学生成为佼佼者中的佼佼者的重要掣肘。学术写作能力的提升，不仅直接提升语言和人文学科的成绩，同时，对于学术论文和大学申请文书的撰写，SAT等标化考试写作能力的打分都有直接影响。为了帮助这批优秀初／高中学生，帮助他们提升学生在校英语课程表现，为大学写作和未来职业生涯中的写作做好充分准备。MSA特别邀请了美国畅销科幻小说作家，著名的教育家和公众演说家为我们带来学术英语写作课程！
本门课程学习最重要的五种类型的文书写作。课程不仅仅包括基本的写作技巧训练，还包括确定写作目标，学习构建多层次的文书结构，雕琢段落，提升语法水平，提高词汇使用的精准性，练习写作学术研究报告。同时，课程还将继续深入，让学生尝试书写大学文书，商业报告，进行口头演讲。
- 01 Essays: Expository (a.k.a. Explanatory)
Prefect entry point to explore the essay form. The expository essay aims to explain, illustrate, or clarify something in a way that brings a topic to the level of a particular audience of readers. The idea for the writer is to investigate a topic by evaluating the evidence and expounding on the body of available material to describe, explain, and provide key information to those who will find the topic useful or interesting.
- 02 Editing and Self-Editing Part I
Student will raise their awareness of errors and methods of correction by recognizing flaws in the work of their peers. They will learn the unique challenges of self-editing.
- 03 Grammar Learning/Review
To be most useful, this building of fundamental skills will be focused mainly on errors that have been revealed in student assignments and testing.
In this critical skill, students will learn how to condense information provided by a source document or video without introducing their own unwarranted opinions.
The objective of the persuasive essay is to change a way of thinking or call for action. The skill is often called for in school and it involves long-proven methods grounded in psychology.
- 06 Structure, Coherence, and Unity
This is an essential organizational discipline that raises writing scores by providing the reader with clarity in a logical, complete, and consistent framework.
- 07 Editing and Self-Editing Part II
This is the continuation of a complex task requiring multiple sessions which will again: Raise student awareness of errors and methods of correction by recognizing flaws in the ongoing work of their peers. Tackle the unique challenges of self-editing.
Students are called upon to read the work of others and find the value and/or flaws of an essayist’s approach to a given task. Has that person been an effective explainer? Has that person been persuasive? In addition to this being a tested skill, it is another effective way to build a student’s awareness of essay tools at his or her disposal.
Responsive essays are a particular kind of analytical subset, the mastery of which has become essential in recent years. The student must render an opinion of the reading material such that he or she can cite relevant examples of points and techniques that inform the student’s opinion. It can allow for agreement or debate with each approach providing scoring criteria.
- 10 Grammar Learning/Review
Although grammar will be touched upon throughout the course as needed, another full class in grammar will be necessary as it will continue to be focused mainly on errors that have been revealed in student assignments and testing.
In the narrative essay, expository writing comes alive in the process known as show don’t tell. It takes the form of a narrowly defined incident, often a personal one and calls for vivid depiction. This is the closest the essay form comes to creative writing and is often found in article writing. Creative writing requires an entire course to master even the basics because it involves long forms that tell a far more complete and rounded story, but no essay course can be complete without introducing and practicing the narrow version of it.
- 12 Editing and Self-Editing Part III
Follow on to edit the most recent classwork and build these skill further.
- 13 Note Taking and Studying Skills
No exploration of academic writing would be complete without raising the level of active classroom content absorption and post-classroom synthesis/solidification of intended learning.
- 14 Introduction to Reports and College-Style Papers
Students must be prepared for high school and college by starting their report writing at the level demanded of their grade. Here they will learn appropriately basic building blocks of requirements to come.
- 15 Research and Style Citations
The writing and analysis of an academic paper requires the application of a uniform set of rules regarding the footnotes that expand upon ideas or point to outside sources. We will go over two of the most popular approaches and demonstrate the level of diligence required to consistently apply the models.
- 16 Business writing with Charts
This is another peek ahead of a topic so complex that the fundamentals must be introduced as early as elementary school in regard to how to read charts. We will introduce the idea of the executive summary and how to support it in a manner that is useful for next-level analysis.
- 17 Introduction to Oral Presentations
All students have done some kind of oral presentation at this point. They must continually improve their efforts in this area and also master the skills needed to present increasingly complex material.
一如既往， MSA从来不青睐满脸稚气的大学生，无论是哪个藤校的在校生或者毕业生。我们只相信厚积薄发的专业领袖和丰富经验的教育者。
Mr Ben的科幻小说 Wade of Aquitaine，曾连续20周名列亚马逊最畅销小说榜。在学术写作方面，他是学校杂志，科学杂志和教育杂志的主要撰稿人和编辑人，并著有关于如何写作的专业指南书“Today You Write the Book”
他多年从事中学和小学的写作教育，在培养孩子的学术写作（ Academic Writing) 和创意写作（Creative Writing)这两个方面都有非常丰富的教学经验。
他还发表了多篇获奖短篇纪实，内容涉及科学，教育，商业，幽默等多方面。
他曾被纽约商业杂志评为最佳10名科技教育者，自2002年以来他作为美国航空航天局喷气推进实验室太阳系的探索大使（ NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador）。
他两次获得天空和望远镜奖（ Sky & Telescope Award），并因荣获尤尼斯线上科学教育奖（Unisys Prize for Online Science Education）而被美国高级科学协会邀请做科学教育的主题报告。
课程详情
Details of the Lesson
7-11年级学生
有一定英文写作基础
需提交学术文书经外教评估
根据学生写作水平进行分班
小班制4-6人／班
线上线下双结合
按照教学计划
每周进行线上集中授课2小时，
课后学生撰写文书
进行相互点评
约4-6小时
原价83美元／小时
现优惠价68美元/小时
学费包含外教在线授课
作业批改点评等
退费和请假安排
1，因外教和中国存在时差，学员如需请假，请家长提前24小时通知班主任；临时请假将会扣除相应课时。
2， 课程已开始，不可取消，由于学生原因产生旷课，扣除相应课时。
3， 如因学员请假导致上课人数不足 2 人，当日课程取消；
4，每10周可请假1次，不扣课时。超过请假次数将扣除相应课时。请假学生可申请去其他班级补课（补课当期如有学位），也可以通过看课程录像自行补课。
5，因个人原因取消课程，取消Science kids账号，按原价（598 元／课时）扣除已上课程费用，剩余课程费予以退还；另外，剩余课程费也可以抵扣夏／冬令营参营费用；可以转让给同一家庭其他学员或同学。
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