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[Draven]

I've used the Ready to Write series, but there's too big of a jump from Ready to Write, which is geared to low intermediate students, to Ready to Write More, which is aimed at low-medium advanced students. If you're students can handle it, I'd recommend the advanced book as it starts with generating and organizing ideas through to building solid introductory, body and concluding paragraphs, with lots of grammar and helpful points sprinkled throughout.

[Hanson]

How about the 'Great' series?

Great Sentences - for Great Paragraphs
Great Paragraphs
Great Essays

The "Weaving It Together" series is a good secondary source for a teacher to get ideas from. It also gives readings and example paragraphs & essays to use as models. I did find, though, that the 'examples' sometimes didn't follow what the book was preaching (which I'd point out to my students).

I also liked using the "Ready to Write" series.

There are a ton of materials and resources to help a teacher with a writing class. There are a ton of things for a student to learn about writing, from pre-writing (brainstorming, clustering, free-writing, outline), to format (physical and in the content), to links (connectors, transitions), to post-writing (reviewing one's work, peer editing, 2nd, 3rd, 4th drafts), and I haven't even mentioned the general do's and don't's of academic writing (don't use the 1st person, don't begin a sentence with a conjunction, do change your sentence structure from sentence to sentences) or grammar (run-on sentences, subject-verb agreement, punctuation, capitalization, etc.)

Please, for you and your students' sakes, don't do what you put forth in the OP.

[the_beaver]

[Hanson]