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    Teaching Composition
    Teaching Composition
    Teaching Composition
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    Teaching Composition

    By Valerie Hockert, PhD

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    Often students are lacking knowledge in how to write an academic paper. Some are interested in writing, but don't know how to get started or know proper format, and others don’t really like writing, but need to learn how to write a proper essay in order to get through college. This teaching textbook teaches one to write from the beginning to the end, and contains everything you need for a lesson planner to teach your students how to write anything. This book contains everything you need to teach a composition course successfully. From grammar review to commonly misused words, to how to write different styles of essays. You may even find that this will be a good refresher for your own writing as well.

    Great for the teacher as well as the student.

    Valerie Hockert has taught composition for over 20 years at a college level, has many published works, and has a PhD in Literary Studies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustice Gray
    Release dateFeb 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310064258
    Teaching Composition
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    Valerie Hockert, PhD

    Valerie Hockert, was born in the Midwest where she has lived all her adult life. She has had much life experience through her various entrepreneurial life. She has a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies, and a PhD in Literary Studies. Dr. Hockert has been teaching at a college level for many years. She was the first publisher of the Writers' Journal and Today's Family, two national publications. She is also a certified personal trainer, great chef, and the Publisher of an e-magazine: www.realitytodayforum.com.

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      Teaching Composition - Valerie Hockert, PhD

      Introduction

      Often I find that students are lacking knowledge in how to write an academic paper. Some are interested in writing, but don't know how to get started or know proper format, and others don’t really like writing, but need to learn how to write a proper essay in order to get through college.

      Writing courses in a local community college, I experimented with various methods and obtained some interesting results. I designed classes to help the student write that great paper.

      I presented to the students the various things included in the books—and with amazing results.

      The members of the classes I taught represented various age levels--from 18 to 60--and were of various writing levels. Since this was the case, I found that the exercises I used (included in this book) had various results, but nevertheless, were beneficial to most students.

      Grammar Review

      It is a good idea to have a grammar review at the beginning of the course, so that you know where students need particular help. Following is a list of items to reviews:

      * allot vs. a lot

      * although

      * apostrophes

      * audience

      * bibliography—need to follow MLA format

      * capitalization

      * caps on words mid-sentence that shouldn’t be

      * citations on graphs/charts

      * commas

      * condensing

      * consistency in essay

      * etc. use

      * fancy report covers

      * format

      * fractions

      * grammar

      * healthcare

      * incomplete sentence fragments

      * indenting

      * it’s vs. its

      * layout

      * long vs. along

      * loose vs. lose vs. loss

      * not following assignment

      * numbers (1 to 10 spell out)

      * over all vs. overall

      * paraphrasing

      * proofreading

      * punctuation

      * run on sentences

      * semi colon

      * single quotes

      * spacing between paragraphs

      * tenses

      * their vs. there vs. they’re

      * then vs. than

      * titles of books

      * whether vs. weather

      * white space

      List of Commonly Confused Words

      This is a good list to go through. As an in-class exercise, you could say the word (spell it) and have them write a sentence using it.

      * accept/except

      * appraise/apprise

      * are/our

      * break/brake

      * by/buy

      * canvas/canvass

      * cite/site

      * compliment/complement

      *

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