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rhinocharge64
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: resources |
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Hi, i wonder if any one could recemmond any books for a writing course i am about to undertake. There level is inter-mediate to advanced, any suggestions would be appreciated, oh, and it's adults i am teaching not children.
Regards the Charge |
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ddeubel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Rhino,
I would charge here..... http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Invaluable resource site for writing especially for adults. I also on my teaching site, have some writing starters. I often also change a reading exercise into a writing exercise, dictate and write . Or listen to a story and write. But I don't do a lot of this type of rote stuff.
Check out the grammar oriented powerpoints on my site also, you'll have to scroll the powerpoint section.
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: |
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I use "Writing Matters" for my freshman Eng comp class.
It gets the job done.
Take a look if you can find it:
Writing Matters! Introduction to Writing and Grammer
McGraw Hill (publisher) |
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Hotpants
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:32 am Post subject: |
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You don't mention if it is creative or academic or exam paper writing that you are going to teach.
For academic writing:
I used this one, 'Writing Academic English' by Oshima and Hogue:
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Writing_Academic_English-ISBN_0201340542.html?isrc=b-search
I found it kind of covered what I wanted with an advanced level writing class, although I ended up extracting bits out of it and making up my own text book from a selection of materials. It took about 2 weeks to make, but it's worth it if you have a lot of such writing classes. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: Re: resources |
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| rhinocharge64 wrote: |
Hi, i wonder if any one could recemmond any books for a writing course i am about to undertake. There level is inter-mediate to advanced, any suggestions would be appreciated, oh, and it's adults i am teaching not children.
Regards the Charge |
OP: I don't make a habit of jumping on people for poor grammar...but in certain cases, I do. If you're going to be teaching writing, I think you'd better brush up on your own. I KNOW that this is "only" a teacher's forum, but if you can't do it for us, CAN you do it for your students?
Yeah, I know in texting and short writing that this is "cool", but "I" is always capitalized.
If you can't bother to get a dictionary, at least look up words on-line!! There are so many dictionary websites to choose from!
No, you mean "their". There is also "they're" which means "they are". Try to get these straight.
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| advanced, any suggestions would be appreciated, oh, and it's adults i am teaching not children. |
You need to know where to put periods (or full stops if you're from the UK) in your sentences.
Sorry to come down on you like this, but your students are going to ask you a LOT of grammar questions, and it would be better if your writing reflected your knowledge! |
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rhinocharge64
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks guys for your help it's really appreciated. To the ajumma go fook yourself, you are pathetic and no doubht suffer from small mans syndrome. Your life must be great if all you can do is sit on here and nit pick you pricck. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| rhinocharge64 wrote: |
| Thanks guys for your help it's really appreciated. To the ajumma go fook yourself, you are pathetic and no doubht suffer from small mans syndrome. Your life must be great if all you can do is sit on here and nit pick you pricck. |
After this, you have the nerve to PM me and ask for help?? I don't think so!! |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| rhinocharge64 wrote: |
| Thanks guys for your help it's really appreciated. To the ajumma go fook yourself, you are pathetic and no doubht suffer from small mans syndrome. Your life must be great if all you can do is sit on here and nit pick you pricck. |
You sound like the person my school refused to hire. They asked him how he taught writing classes (after he had bragged that they were what he was best at) and he said he made the students edit over and over again. My boss's response was, "well, couldn't you have bothered to edit your own resume?"
I know this is 'just' a forum, and I know that people can be out of line in pointing out typos (though most of yours, of which ajuma only pointed out a few, weren't typos they were mistakes). However, if you are asking for advice on teaching writing, the best advice is to make sure you can do it yourself, which a lot of graduates of our current watered-down universities (colleges if you're American) are incapable of doing, despite the fact that they have a piece of paper telling others that they really are smart.  |
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rhinocharge64
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, thanks for the advice i feel completely unintelligent now. I am heading back to high school to study Englishe. |
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ajuma
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Hey! I figured it out!! rhinocharge64 is really George Bush in disguise!!  |
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OiGirl
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| Apostrophes are nice, too! |
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lover.asian
Joined: 30 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
Rhino,
I would charge here..... http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Invaluable resource site for writing especially for adults. I also on my teaching site, have some writing starters. I often also change a reading exercise into a writing exercise, dictate and write . Or listen to a story and write. But I don't do a lot of this type of rote stuff.
Check out the grammar oriented powerpoints on my site also, you'll have to scroll the powerpoint section.
DD |
That's a good site. This one is also.
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/writing.htm |
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rhinocharge64
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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cheers lover.asian thanks for the referral it seems to be a really useful site. Much appreciated and thanks for the non-negative comments. Ajumma, sounds like you need a ride. Why George Bush? You sound like the red neck texan with the Mr. superiority attitude. For me i'm a humble Brit who thinks Bush or Bushe is the no.1 terrorist. BUT nonetheless cheers for your wit and humour whilst i'm sitting here doing a wee bit of admin before i head off shortly for my three o'clock finish or finishe.
Take care all and have a nice weekend. Any more referrals for resource sites will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers the Charge. |
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rhinocharge64
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, it should have been a capital C for Cheers Ajumma, it was a typo dear boy. So please stay chilled. |
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Kimchieluver
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| For some reason I always thought Ajumma was a woman. |
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