In ESL 282B, Composition I used Longman Academic Writing Series, Paragraphs to Essays by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue. Pearson, 2014. This Fourth Edition had a new component compared to the Third Edition, 2007. Towards the end of each chapter there is a section entitled Self-Assessment. For example, in Chapter 9 (“Essay Organization”) students are asked to check off if they learned to identify and write the three parts of an essay, etc. This check […]
Tag: Integrated Intermediate Writing
Top 3: Revision of Higher Level Writing Idea
I have been teaching writing for a while and at another school where we have department finals. For higher levels instead of giving a ton of comments and feedback, I focus on a Top 3. These are three areas I feel are most important for improvement. Students must improve for their revision and then highlight/bold. After they turn it in, examine and provide additional feedback. If students can focus on certain areas, teachers will see […]
Showing versus Telling – Building Support
This lesson illustrates to students how to write “telling” versus “showing” paragraphs. That is, student are shown the difference between a paragraph that merely states reasons rather than develops them through explanation, examples, or specific details. The lesson proceeds as follows after discussing components of a paragraph from previous lessons: Project on the screen the first model of a “telling” paragraph. Read the paragraph aloud and then ask students to complete the comprehension questions following. […]
Learning a Second Language Article with Questions
After students have been introduced to annotating articles with highlighting, asking questions, and writing symbols and comments, this I used in my upper beginning class to reinforce those skills. This reinforces different ways they can increase their own styles of learning the new language. Their comments were extremely positive about what they might try after having read this. >>Learning a Second Language Article<< Annie
World English 2 Unit 2 Writing Assignment
This is the writing assignment I used with World English 2 for a writing assignment. It took most students about 40 minutes to complete this assignment, including a planning stage. The assignment begins with an example paragraph that asks students to identify things the writer “has and has not done,” and then students write their own paragraphs using the present perfect about things they have and have not done yet in their lives. >>Writing Unit […]