Essentials of Teaching Academic Writing

Description

Provides information for instructors who wish to teach academic English.

1. Analyzing a Writing Program and Preparing for Your First Class 2. Knowing Your Student Population: An In-Depth Analysis of the EAP Writing Student 3. Resident Student Writing Problems 4. Resident Student Errors and Error Gravity 5. Analyzing Student Writing 6. Students Revising Their Writing 7. Lesson Plans 8. Setting the Themes of the Course 9. Applications of General and Specific: Teaching Essay Maps and Summaries 10. Developing and Assigning Writing Tasks 11. Teaching ESL EAP Students Research Strategies 12. Opportunities for Feedback on Student Writing 13. Preparing to Respond to Student Writing 14. Responding to Student Writing 15. Final Drafts: Getting Ready to Evaluate/Assess Student Writing 16. Evaluating Student Writing 17. Returning Evaluated Papers 18. Teaching Grammar in the Composition Classroom