Teach English Writing Skills: Noun Modifiers

October 23, 2016August 18, 2016 by eslwriter

Nouns Modifying Nouns

Writing skill: sentence fluency

ESL students learning to write English sometimes produce wordy sentences. Wordiness is not good. It makes the text hard to read. Plus, it’s not stylish. Learning how to use the fewest number of words to express an idea is an important writing skill.

Teach Writing: Expanding Sentences

October 23, 2016August 17, 2016 by eslwriter

Write Better Sentences

Writing skill: sentence fluency

ESL students sometimes write text with too many short sentences. Short sentences are not bad. They are especially useful when the writer wants to add a bit of style with different sentence lengths. But too many short sentences can lead to boring text. This short writing activity helps students fix that problem.

Teaching Arguments to ESL Students

October 23, 2016May 8, 2016 by eslwriter

Teach Arguments in Writing

This is another exercise that helps ESL learn how to write arguments in English. The four part framework for this activity is as follows:

Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 9

April 27, 2016April 25, 2016 by eslwriter

Learn English writing

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

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