Intended for use by the teacher of a preparatory writing course at the college entry level, this developmental writing module is intended to provide students with some basic grammatical and organizational tools that will enable students to express themselves in writing well enough to answer coherently short essay questions, and succeed in a freshman composition course. The module is prepared for use with the text, "The Least You Should Know about English: Basic Writing Skills," and presumes seventh to eighth grade literacy, but may be used with any comparable text which provides ample practice exercises in the skills covered by this module. The general objectives of this module are that, on completion, the student will be able to write a coherent paragraph, and will understand how the structural principles of the paragraph may be applied to a longer paper. The specific objectives are that, on completion of the module, the student will be able to narrow a topic and formulate a thesis or theme statement, organize material into paragraphs, write short introductions and conclusions, write an outline, and use grammar and punctuation correctly in order to create basic written communication. In order to tailor the instruction to a specific audience, the module may be altered to incorporate the vocabulary of the particular discipline of that audience. The material is presented in a lesson plan format with 20 different lessons. (MS)