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Adbusting: Critical Media Literacy in a Multi-Skills Academic Writing Lesson

John Mark on December 11th, 2009 under Lessons/Materials, Publications, Teaching Writing •  Comments Off

TweetAttached to this post is a copy of the article I co-wrote with English Language Fellow Anna Grigoryan for English Teaching Forum magazine. It was published in 2008. Forum website Link to issue containing article Link to download article in PDF

Summarizing Packet of Materials

John Mark on November 8th, 2009 under Lessons/Materials, Publications, Teaching Reading, Teaching Writing •  Comments Off

TweetAttached to this post is a packet of materials I helped create for students at the community college I worked at before I moved to Russia. It is designed primarily as a series of reading lessons with additional activities for summarizing and it utilizes the rhetorical structure of American newspaper articles as its basis for [...]