First year students will learn to improve their writing by focusing on Pudewa's "Structure and Style in Writing." The emphasis by the end of the first year will be on using provided sources to write organized, cohesive paragraphs with complete, concise, readable sentences that include variety in format by combining sentences and varying openings of sentences, while maintaining accuracy in mechanics conventions.

Jensen's "Format Writing" will be incorporated in the second year, and students will build upon the skills learned in the first year while writing various types of paragraphs including example, classification, definition, process, analogy, cause & effect, and comparison. Second-year students will focus on writing paragraphs on topics of their own choice and will cover areas such as focus, support and elaboration, organization, sentence conventions, mechanic conventions. More research on the topics chosen will be required.

Third-year students will expand their writing to include essay writing. The essay writing class will cover many of the same topics addressed in the paragraph class but will be expanded to the writing of essays. Once the basic format of essay writing is mastered the students will write seven different types of expository essays.

Fourth-year students will concentrate on expanding their writing skills to write research reports. Emphasis will be placed on research skills and note taking using a variety of source materials, creating the overall outline, supporting the thesis statement, giving proper credit to sources through endnotes and bibliographies.