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CTYOnline - Writing for an Audience
Open to: Grades 6 and 7
Format: Email
Challenge Level: High school senior
Prerequisite: Qualifying verbal score and one course below:
 CTYOnline  The Process of Writing
CTY Summer Programs Writing and Imagination,
CTY Summer Programs Heroes and Villains
Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
Length: 20 weeks, 12 weeks Early Summer, or 6 weeks Intensive Mid Summer


Level 2: Writing for an Audience provides an intensive writing experience for students in grades 6 and 7, which continues students' introduction to the process of writing; however, in Writing for an Audience, the emphasis is on revising for an audience. Level 2 assignments focus on drafting to shape a writer's ideas and on revising to communicate those ideas to an audience. Level 2 students write five projects, which may include:

  1. a persuasive letter,
  2. a critical essay about literature,
  3. an analysis of a literary character,
  4. the sense of place in a poem, and
  5. an experiment with writing style.

For each project, students complete an assignment for two stages of the writing process:

  1. drafting and
  2. revising drafts for an audience.

Sample Assignment

Time Required:

  • 2 hours weekly for 20 week sessions (Fall and Early Spring)
  • 3.5 hours weekly for 12 week Early Summer Session
  • 1.5 hours Monday - Friday during Mid Summer Intensive Session

Review Summer Session Daily Schedules

Learn more about the summer sessions.

Get more information from Frequently Asked Questions.

Detailed Course Information
Tech Skills: students need for emailing

System Requirements

All CTY Online courses require a properly-maintained computer with Internet access and a recent-version web browser (such as Explorer 6, Firefox, or Safari). Students are expected to be familiar with standard computer operations (e.g. login, cut & paste, email attachments, etc).

Spam blockers, parental controls, and other internet filtering software must allow email from JHU (jhu.edu & jhem.jhu.edu), and from the instructor's email address (provided at start of course).

Important: Frequent changing of a student's screen name or email address is inversely proportional to success.

If this course uses a web-based classroom for assignments and group discussion, your browser will need to allow cookies, javascript, and popup windows from the classroom web site.

Course code: ema2

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