Teaching Expository Writing 
Specific Objectives
This 1 day workshop is designed to impart skills and strategies that English Language teachers can bring to the classroom to teach expository writing. Using a multi-media and activity-based approach, award-winning writer Felix Cheong will demonstrate how teachers can impart expository writing skills to their students in an effective and interesting manner.
- Helping students identify the different types of expository essays.
- Strategies to help students get started.
- Strategies to help students broaden their perspective.
- Strategies to help students structure their essays.
- Helping students to spot fallacies in their argumentative essays.
Outline
- Group discussion
- Finding a reason
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Playing devil's advocate
- Types of expository essays
- Understanding argument
- Common fallacies
- Tips for good writing
- Using film to set the context
- Lesson plan
- Self-reflection
For learners of English as a Foreign Language to communicate in English at work, both with colleagues and clients.
1 Day
Click on your preferred date below to register. Only online registrations will be accepted.
Intake 01
28 Jan 12
(Sat from 9.00am - 5.00pm)
Intake 02
2 Jun 12
(Sat from 9.00am - 5.00pm)
$360 (Inclusive of GST)
NUS Extension (#12-01 Park Mall)
