Sophomore Writing

ESL writing activities that help students learn four essential writing skills: fluency, proficiency, style and inquiry-based reasoning.

Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 11

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Last week there were many holidays and missed classes because of the university festival. This week, the 11th of the semester, we will continue with our ESL writing exercises.

The three writing assignments we are working on (two old ones plus a new one this week) give students a chance to practice a simple but important framework to find and analyze arguments and warrants.

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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 9

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This is week 9 of the semester. Here is the basic plan for this week.

  1. Quickly review mid term exam answers and scores.
  2. It is time to start fresh with new writing assignments.
  3. Improve the students’ ability to think critically (leadership analysis)
  4. More practice with a text analysis (Steve Jobs speech)
  5. Even more practice thinking and writing critically (TED Talk video analysis)
  6. Improve writing style by understanding how to write sentences with nominalizations.

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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 7

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Learn English writing.

This is week 7 of the semester. For one class it will be a short week because of the Wednesday holiday.

Exam Preparation

This week, the objective is to prepare for the mid term exam, which will be during week 8 (next week). Students can prepare for the exam by:

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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 6

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Learn English writing activities this week

Here is a checklist of things to complete by the end of this week:

  • finish 3rd draft of four writing assignments (homeless guy, health and wealth, book or movie review, guided writing exercise about adding emotion based on the theme show me don’t tell me)
  • complete 4 chapters in the textbook
  • learn and understand topic, controlling idea and controlling sentence (chapter 3 in the textbook)
  • have a clear understating of the differences between correlation and causation and be ready to provide examples for each
  • know the eight parts of speech
  • know at least four ways to create cohesion in a paragraph of story (here, here and here)
  • know some ways to create an interesting first sentence
  • know the answers to the questions on quiz #1

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