{"id":2809,"date":"2018-04-30T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2018-05-11T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:10:15","slug":"lesson-of-the-week-college-essay-writing-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/lesson-of-the-week-college-essay-writing-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson of the Week: College Essay writing-Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/College-essay-writing.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2810\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/College-essay-writing.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/College-essay-writing.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/College-essay-writing.jpg?w=525&amp;ssl=1 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>College Essay Writing-Application by Tiarra Clarkston (Argentina, ETA)<\/p>\n<p>Many students study English with the goal of attending an American university.\u00a0 Mastering grammar and vocabulary is only part of communication.\u00a0 Students need to learn the cultural norms in writing and use their knowledge of the language appropriately especially in a university application process.\u00a0 Conventional American writing includes the following: introduction, body, and conclusion.\u00a0 The main idea or \u201cthesis\u201d is introduced in the introduction, reinforced with the body, and restated with an expanding idea in the conclusion.\u00a0 Cultural norms about directness and the structure in writing vary by country and culture.\u00a0 Instructing students on U.S. writing conventions will help them demonstrate their knowledge of the language while providing cultural insight to written communication.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson includes the following components:<\/p>\n<p>PowerPoint presentation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Writing-college-essay-presentation.pptx\">Writing college essay presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handouts with essay examples taken from collegeadmissionsstrategies.com\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bad-and-Good-essay-examples-1.pdf\">Bad and Good essay examples<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teacher\u2019s copy of the handout with details about each example.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Original-essay-example-page.pdf\">Teacher&#8217;s copy of handout<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea is to use the presentation as a guide and the handouts as supportive materials with students working in groups. \u00a0Students brainstorm ideas that they can later use. \u00a0The lesson could be modified to incorporate specific interests of the students and changed to focus on certain facets of writing. \u00a0For example, in Argentina students are taught to write in a highly formal academic manner that talks around the subject. \u00a0This approach is not appropriate for a personal statement for a university application. \u00a0For these students, discussing how to structure the essay was important. \u00a0The students said they found the examples very helpful and will keep them for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>This lesson can also be used to help students with Fulbright grant application essays! Be sure to check back for more lessons. \u00a0Next week we will feature a lesson to help beginners in English! \u00a0Chao chao from Argentina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Essay Writing-Application by Tiarra Clarkston (Argentina, ETA) Many students study English with the goal of attending an American university.\u00a0 Mastering grammar and vocabulary is only part of communication.\u00a0 Students need to learn the cultural norms in writing and use their knowledge of the language appropriately especially in a university&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,216,105],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}