Writing Class

I just opened a new writing classs for a student who is going to Oklahoma Uni. The traditional goal of our school's sylabus aims at passing the entry English exams for Korean Universities and a possible chance at entering a foreign institution.

The new student, a 19 year old girl, was born in America and speaks perfect English (almost). She needs the same type of education which teaches a native speaker to write an academic essay. This leaves me with absolutely no help from my school. They gave me books to teach this student that would be worthless or repetitive for her.

So being the nice guy I am I have made my own course in academic writing using a selection of books that I found on Amazon. I hope it goes well. It centres around reading numerous newspaper an academic articles, checking for comprehension, and then writing an analytical essay. This is coupled with some in depth (for non-native speakers) look into sentence and paragraph formation and academic necessities such as citation an bibliographies. I also included an English guide book on writing better essays which I might actually benefit from too.

I hope it works.