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Advanced Level ESL Process Essay Curriculum

Introduction

Welcome to the lesson on Process Essays for English for Academic Purposes. Process essays are usually the first essays that new college students write in their composition courses and are also known as "instructional essays" or "how-to essays". This lesson will guide you through the steps of writing a process essay and creating a digital story as a visual representation of your work. At the end of the lesson, you will have completed two products: your composition and the digital story.

Objective:

Students will develop the ability to write a college-level essay with sophistication, fluency, and accuracy and execute other academic writing tasks.

Benchmarks:

The student will recognize, produce and refine the type of academic essay that a writing task requires.
The student will demonstrate increased fluency in writing and will plan and develop multi-paragraph essay. The essay will contain avariety of vocabulary, and sentence and grammatical structures. The essay will exhibit clarity, coherence, unity and substance in Standard English appropriate to the level.
The student will proofread and edit written work for accuracy focusing on grammar, mechanics and sentence structure, and for meaning, focusing on audience and purpose, clarity and substance.
The student will refine computer word processing skills.
The student will use tools to create a visual representation of work through digital storytelling.

Assignment: Complete these steps to create your essay and digital story

Step 1: What are the parts of an essay? Click on the information below to learn more about essay writing.

Essays, like sandwiches or burgers, are divided into three different parts. These parts are the: Introduction, Body, and Essay

Links:

Parts of an Essay Power Point

Parts of an Essay (Ryerson University)

Essay Writing Sandwich Diagram

Step 2: Watch the short video below to for an explanation of step and ideas for writing your first process essay. Please attention to essential aspects of a process essay such as: