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:
1. Please review short power point on the parts of an essay:
Parts of an Essay Power Point
2. Read this pamphlet from Ryerson University on the parts of the essay. Take the quiz at the end and email me your answers.
Parts of an Essay (Ryerson University)
3. Print out this graphic organizer which you can use as a tool to formulate your essay.
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:
- Parts of an essay
- Creating a thesis statement
- Chronological order
- Transition expressions: First, next, after, before, while, during , between, etc.
Step 3: Select a topic
Click on the link below to select a topic that you will use for your composition. Email me your choice.
Additional Process Essay Topics
Step 4: Brainstorming/Draft
Now that you have selected at topic, keep in mind the following questions when brainstorming ideas and thoughts to include in your essay:
Why is it important to know how to do this?
What are the steps in the process?
What dangers are there if you don’t do it correctly?
Can anyone do this? Is it easy or difficult to do?
Choose a graphic organizer to put in your ideas (you can also use the one in Step 1).
Process-Essay-scaffold.pdf
Process-Essay-Graphic-Organizer1.docx
Please complete your draft and bring it to class for peer editing before moving on to Step 5. Once your essay has been peer edited, you can use one of these sites to help proofread your final essay.
SpellCheckPlus is an online grammar checking website. It checks for grammatical mistakes of a content. Here are some features of SpellCheckPlus:
PaperRater is a free web-based service for online content proofreading including:
- Grammar checking
- Online text proofreading
- Plagiarism detection
- Provides writing suggestions
- Online vocabulary builder tool
- Provides detailed report about content quality
Step 5: Digital Storytelling
Please read the links below for information on how to create a digital story:
University of Illinois Digital Storytelling
Storyboarding
Video: Webinar on Tools for Digital Storytelling (55 min) :
Select a platform on which to produce your story:
Power point/Slide Share
Prezi
Animoto
Xtranormal
PhotoStory
Evaluation Rubric
Student Work
Additional Resources:
Academic Writing (Dartmouth)
Digital Storytelling Cookbook
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