Writing Workshop: Promoting College Success
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Writing Workshop is a fully-integrated reading and writing program that reviews and consolidates the critical literacy skills that ESL and developmental learners will need as they transition to mainstream academic classes. By providing students with authentic texts, assignments, samples of responses to assignments, users of Writing Workshop write, read, and discuss their way into mainstream academic study.
Guide to Strategies. Preface. Tips for Teachers. WORKSHOP ONE: Interpreting a Text. Reading Selection: Night (by Bret Lott). Strategies: Interpreting. Previewing. Writing Margin. Notes. Analyzing. Using Context. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Grammar Workshop 1: a) adjective clauses b) appositives. WORKSHOP TWO: Summarizing Nonfiction. Reading Selection: Friends, Good Friends—And Such Good Friends (by Judith Viorst). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Making Your Thesis Clear. Analyzing. Summarizing. Evaluating. Grammar Workshop 2: 1) noun clauses with that" b) sequence of tenses. WORKSHOP THREE: Writing in Response to Reading. Reading Selection: Sample essay responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Evaluating. Writing Margin Notes. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 3: 1) gerunds as subjects b) it''s + adjective + infinitive. WORKSHOP FOUR: Incorporating Others'' Ideas into Your Writing. Reading Selection: Seven Keys to Learning (a magazine article). Strategies: Previewing. Using Quotes. Paraphrasing. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 4: 1) adverbial clauses b) participial phrases. WORKSHOP FIVE: Using Writing to Understand a Text. Reading Selection: Stimulating Beverages (a science textbook excerpt). WORKSHOP SIX: Responding to Exam Questions. Reading Selection: Sample exam responses. Grammar Workshop 6: parallel forms. WORKSHOP SEVEN: Reporting on Research. Reading Selection: Working with Gilly (an academic report). WORKSHOP EIGHT: Passing a Writing Test. Reading Selection: Sample writing test responses."
