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[Trevor]

Looking for subject matter and any suggestions relating to teaching college composition. If any one has any links or suggestions I would appreciate it.

[gweilo_farang]

Why on earth would you accept the job if you're not qualified to teach the subject? Have you even taught in a university before?

Besides, assuming you have done even basic graduate work at a Western university, you SHOULD be equipped with at least rudimentary research skills.
Try http://google.com!

[makemischief]

are you looking more for a "how to teach composition" or online resources you and your students can use in creating their compositions (whiteboards, blogs, forums, etc.)?

[contrarian]

Teaching composition on the university level is great.

I got started my first year at a university when the had 50 people sign up for a writing class limited to 25. I said split the list give me a class room and I'll teach that half. They did.

What did I know about it? Not very darn much. We had a suggested book and I used it. I gave writing assignments. It was then that I learned the hard truth. You can give them out and then you have to mark them. Whoooo!!! EEEE!! thats a lot of work.

The next term they had about 90 sign up so they made it into 3 classes of 30 - I got all three of them.

In my less than humble opinion the way to do it, is to start with the idea of using student strengths. The Confucian system works on memorization and boy do these kids know how to memorize. They don't need vocabulary or grammer terms. They know them, but they don't know how to use them.

After those two terms I started out by teaching them what a sentance looks like on paper. Indented paragraphs, capitalization, punctuation, spacing and etc.

It worked.

[Hotpants]

Look on my site below for useful writing websites - scroll down to 'w' for 'writing'. Lots of handouts and format tips available for this age group. But, if you can settle for a good textbook, that can form the backbone of your course.

[ddeubel]

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. I've posted this link atleast 3 times the last few months. Owl Writing Lab out of Purdue

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/index.html

The OED of writing. Good, interactive powerpoints too.

Also, on the teaching link at my site, I have a whole pile of writing starters. Good for generating writing. Get the students to edit, this is the key with writing. By going through the writing process and them editing, they learn much more than just the teacher handing back a corrected copy. The teacher should only evaluate the finished copy, in most cases...

DD