{"id":32325,"date":"2026-08-15T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/riverstead\/?post_type=product&#038;p=32325"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:16:25","slug":"the-building-blocks-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/riverstead\/product\/the-building-blocks-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2026 &#8211; The Building Blocks of Writing: Crafting Compelling Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 950px; margin: 0 auto; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #2f2f2f; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p><!-- COURSE OVERVIEW --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: linear-gradient(135deg, #33005c, #4b2366); color: #ffffff; padding: 32px; border-radius: 14px 14px 0 0;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0; color: #ffffff; font-size: 30px;\">Course Information<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0 0; color: #f5edf8;\">This is a 3-credit course that carries the academic commitment, workload, and tuition associated with university-level study. Please review the course details and tuition information carefully before registering. If completed with a passing grade, the credits may be eligible towards a future degree or certificate program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- COURSE DESCRIPTION --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Description<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course develops the core skills of effective, expressive writing through close reading and sustained practice in structure, tone, and style. Students analyze exemplary prose across genres while strengthening sentence craft, paragraph coherence, clarity, and rhetorical awareness of audience and purpose. Through workshops and iterative assignments, students learn to move from summary to interpretation and from early drafts to polished prose, engaging diverse global voices, including works by Muslim women writers, as models for developing a confident and purposeful writing voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing is treated as an ethical practice grounded in Islamic values and epistemology. Students cultivate habits shaped by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">niyyah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (intention), \u1e63idq (truthfulness), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">am\u0101na<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (responsibility), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i\u1e25s\u0101n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (excellence), alongside explicit instruction in academic integrity, ethical source use, and APA and Chicago citation styles. The course also addresses responsible and transparent AI-assisted writing, emphasizing revision support while maintaining authorship and intellectual honesty. Major assessments guide students through a progressive sequence demonstrating growth in clarity, revision, and ethical communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- LEARNING OUTCOMES --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px;\">By the end of this course, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write clear, purposeful, and well-structured prose demonstrating control of sentence structure, paragraph development, tone, and style.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apply rhetorical and analytical reading strategies to interpret texts across genres, cultures, and historical contexts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move from summary to interpretation by developing claims supported by textual evidence and analysis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demonstrate ethical source use and academic integrity by accurately summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing, and citing sources using APA and Chicago formats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employ responsible and transparent AI-assisted writing practices, distinguishing acceptable revision support from inappropriate content generation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identify and work within major literary genres and global writing traditions, recognizing diverse voices and stylistic approaches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revise writing through a structured, multi-stage process to improve clarity, coherence, argumentation, and voice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PREREQUISITES --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Prerequisites<\/h3>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f1fa; border-left: 5px solid #6f3b87; padding: 14px 18px; border-radius: 6px;\">This course is open to women ages 17 and above.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- COURSE MATERIALS --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Materials<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px;\">Students are responsible for purchasing all required textbooks before the start of class.<br \/>\nRib\u0101\u1e6d textbooks are available at the <a style=\"color: #5d2d76; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.rabata.org\/collections\/ribaat-texbooks-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rabata Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 18px;\">\n<div style=\"flex: 1 1 300px; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; padding: 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Required Readings<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Writing Well<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, William Zinsser<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They Say, I Say<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Canvas materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selected Readings by Global Women Writers\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex: 1 1 300px; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; padding: 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Additional Readings<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Art of the Personal Essay<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Phillip Lopate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elements of Style<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional readings may be shared through Canvas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- REGISTRATION --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 16px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Registration Information<\/h3>\n<div style=\"background-color: #33005c; color: #ffffff; border-radius: 10px; padding: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 5px; color: #f4c95d; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Registration Fee<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;\">$450.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0 0; color: #eee5f2;\">Course materials are not included.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%; padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9; font-weight: bold; color: #33005c;\">Late Registration Fee<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9;\">An additional $20.00 beginning September 11, 2026, if seats remain available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9; font-weight: bold; color: #33005c;\">Registration Deadline<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9;\">September 28, 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9; font-weight: bold; color: #33005c;\">Auditing Fee<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9;\">An additional $5.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9; font-weight: bold; color: #33005c;\">Course Access Ends<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 13px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e5dce9;\">January 10, 2027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; background-color: #fff8e5; border: 1px solid #edd88d; border-left: 5px solid #d2a62c; border-radius: 7px; padding: 16px;\"><strong style=\"color: #674f12;\">Important:<\/strong><br \/>\nRegistration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. Before enrolling, please review the <a style=\"color: #5d2d76; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/admissions\/tuition\/#riverstead_container\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Registration Fees &amp; Policies<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0 0;\"><strong>Questions?<\/strong><br \/>\nContact <span style=\"color: #33005c;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #33005c;\" href=\"mailto:registration@rabata.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration@rabata.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- ATTENDANCE POLICY --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Attendance Policy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">Students are expected to attend all scheduled class sessions and participate actively in their learning.<br \/>\nConsistent attendance supports academic success and helps maintain a collaborative classroom environment.<br \/>\nIf an absence is unavoidable, students are responsible for communicating with their instructor, reviewing<br \/>\nmissed material, and completing any assigned work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Technology Requirements<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px;\">To ensure a successful online learning experience, all students must have regular access to a personal<br \/>\ncomputer and reliable high-speed internet. Courses at Rib\u0101\u1e6d University are delivered through Canvas and may include video lectures, interactive discussions, digital readings, and multimedia assignments.<br \/>\nStudents are responsible for maintaining the technology needed to participate fully.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 22px 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Minimum Technical Requirements<\/h4>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Computer:<\/strong><br \/>\nA desktop, laptop, or similar device manufactured within the last five years and capable of running<br \/>\ncurrent software and updates. Students should not rely solely on a phone, as coursework requires a full computer interface and functionality.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Operating System:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe computer operating system should be kept current with all recommended security updates and upgrades.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Internet:<\/strong><br \/>\nA high-speed broadband connection with a minimum speed of 5 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Web Browser:<\/strong><br \/>\nA current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Software:<\/strong><br \/>\nMicrosoft Office, Google Workspace, or Apple productivity applications for word processing,<br \/>\npresentations, and spreadsheets; a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat; and updated antivirus and<br \/>\nsecurity software.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Multimedia:<\/strong><br \/>\nA functional webcam, microphone, and speakers or headset for participating in live sessions and assessments.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 22px 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Technology Skills<\/h4>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\">\n<p>Students should be comfortable with basic computer operations, including using email, browsing the internet, uploading and downloading files, and navigating an online learning platform. 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