eWriting: ESL Writing Success
Learning Objectives: Quick Reference of lessons
@ all levels
CPT/CLAST Reading Tutorials
Test Prep for Reading
College Placement Test
(CPT) Prep --Reading Skills
Word Processing Tutorials
Basic Word Processing Skills LINKS:
Movies and exercises)
How Faculty are Using eWriting
Q: How are the Writing
professors at MDC using this program?
A: Although we do not prescribe
methodologies to professors, there are several creative uses of eWriting that have been reported
by MDC faculty as
in Writing classes.
1) Choose the Writing Lab lessons that correlate with
(and reinforce) what students
2) Choose lessons that are not
covered in the Writing classes to deepen students' overall skill level.
a mix of lessons
to increase increase learning (scope) those
concepts that are covered in the Writing
classes, but that students typically find difficult, or and concepts
that you consider important but that not covered in your writing
for each student based on
their own individual learning needs.
Let students self-select their
on their own perceived needs (hint: this works best in classes
where the students are motivated and serious about improving their own
Let the writing lab tutors prescribe
lessons to the
students that they serve.
Use the multimedia presentations
in MDC's "smart classrooms"
writing/grammar structures and then assign the rest of the LO (with its
interactive activities, writing exercises, and quizzes) for homework.
8) Assign a number of Writing Expansion exercises
(located at the end of lessons in most eWriting levels) for students to
turn in periodically as proof of content mastery -- an
Assessment portfolio or
9) Have all students complete the lessons designed to
sentence and paragraph skills,
and then assign the remaining required hours to individual
students lessons based on their personal writing errors.
10) Use the
CPT prep materials in Levels
5 and 6 to prepare
students for the Reading portion of the CPT exam.
Merge the 6-level eWriting Lab
program with your Angel or WebCT
enhance your online and hybrid ESL Writing courses.
12) Unexpected use that is growing
Grammar teachers find the eWriting
lessons useful in teaching as well as for a way to
have missed class to
catch up and keep up
with their classmates.
used throughout the eWriting project are from Animation Factory: http://www.animationfactory.com/