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Great Writing 4: Great Essays (Great Writing, Fifth Edition) 005 Edition, Kindle Edition

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Keith s. folse.

I've always been interested in language and languages. I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which is really a linguistic extension of New Orleans. (We speak a similar dialect of English and eat the same food; I grew up on gumbo, red beans and rice, and jambalaya.) As a kid, I knew that we talked different. Beaucoup (boocoo), the neutral ground (the median in a road), and passing by someone's house (meaning: to stop and visit someone) were all a normal part of my dialect. I grew up primed to notice language nuances.

I love teaching, and I am thankful to the many dedicated teachers I've had over the years. I am especially grateful to my high school French teacher, Mrs. Emily de Montluzin, who was my first foreign language teacher many years ago. There was something inspiring about how she taught, which made what she taught so interesting and impactful on my life -- and isn't that what all of us teachers hope to accomplish?

Learning languages comes naturally to me and have studied six. Some were in a classroom setting with a teacher, a book, and other students. Other languages were learned by hanging out with native speakers and practicing a lot. A WHOLE LOT! More recently, I have started learning another language online. In the process of all this studying and learning, I have come to know a lot more about good teaching and good learning.

My first foreign language was French. I was naturally good at languages, which led me to continue studying them. I learned Spanish, eventually doing my master's thesis in dialects of Spanish in Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. My next language was Arabic. While living in Malaysia, I studied Malay, often by watching subtitles of the TV show "Dynasty" because it was one of only two shows on TV in English with Malay subtitles. (The other was "Sesame Street.") I studied Japanese and had to use it in my daily life there. Most recently, I have been learning German through my university course, which is 100% online due to COVID. This course has no Zoom and therefore no human interaction of any kind. I've come to realize and appreciate how hard it is to learn a language by yourself. Language is perhaps one of the most human interactions we have, yet I completed German 1 with a computer, an online textbook, and youtube videos.

For more than 40 years -- a number I cannot truly believe -- in the US and abroad. I've taught English as Second/Foreign Language in the US, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Kuwait, and Japan. I've also taught French and Spanish. In fact, I once taught Spanish in Japan IN JAPANESE. Now think about that combination for a moment!

In addition, I've conducted teacher training workshops all over the globe, from Argentina to Uzbekistan. I'm certified secondary (English & French), and one of my favorite events is working with hundreds of K12 teachers every summer in Arkansas through an amazing program with the Arkansas Department of State. I am a frequent conference presenter at international and regional TESOL events.

At a very early age, I loved teacher worksheets. Teachers back then passed out mimeographed handouts that they had run off on a spirit master machine. The handouts were a bluish-purple color, and they smelled GREAT! Teachers often arrived in class with last-minute handouts where the paper was still wet and the chemical smells were very strong. When a teacher passed out a worksheet, everyone was smelling the sheets.... but while my classmates continued with their handout-induced highs, I -- being a nerd -- was noticing the design of the worksheet. How did the teacher set up the matching activity? Terms on the left and definitions on the right? (Very American, I know now.) Or vice-versa? And where did the blanks go? And which words did she ask? It is no exaggeration to say that I really LOVED school. I LOVED those worksheets. I LOVED our workbooks. And so it's no wonder that at the age of 25, I published my first book. So far, I have published 75 books with the University of Michigan Press, National Geographic Learning, Wayzgoose Press, Oxford University Press, and Longman.

I have a BA in English with a minor in Secondary Education and French and an MA in TESOL. I also have a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology. My main research areas are vocabulary and best teaching practices. I'm especially interested in experimental, quasi-experimental, and case study research on the teaching of grammar, the teaching of vocabulary, and error correction in second language writing.

Who knew that smelling the chemicals on worksheets in the 60s and 70s would lead me to be a textbook and workbook writer today? Well, they say that everything happens for a reason...

I hope you enjoy my English language materials. I am always open to hearing your suggestions for improving my work. Please feel free to contact me -- whether it is to comment on one of my books, ask about a research question, or invite me to participate at a conference in your area.

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Great Writing Makes Great Writers

Now in the fifth edition, Great Writing is a six-level series that helps students develop their academic writing with expanded vocabulary building, sentence development, and National Geographic content to spark ideas.

Great Writing provides clear explanations, academic writing models, and focused practice to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

A new unit structure offers students the targeted practice and skills they need to become competent writers
Updated Building Better Sentences starts with editing and finishes with sentence combining for more refined writing
Updated Building Better Vocabulary highlights academic words and gives many opportunities to practice
New Words to Know boxes highlight academic and carefully-leveled words that students will frequently use

Great Writing: Great Essays 4 (5th edition)

[Keith S. Folse, April Muchmore-Vokoun, & Elena Vestri Solomon. National Geographic Learning: Cengage, 2020. pp. i + 198. https://myelt.heinle.com/ ¥3,430. ISBN: 978-0-357-02085-2.]

Reviewed by Nick Boyes, Meijo University

G reat Writing: Great Essays 4 is an excellent choice for teaching the standard five-paragraph essay. It is the fourth book in the Great Writing series that starts with paragraph writing and finishes with research essays. The textbook Great Essays 4 has a wide variety of sample essays and exercises. In the new edition, the sample essays are even more interesting and applicable to students’ lives. The textbook uses a process writing approach (Harmer, 2004) consisting of four stages: brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and editing. It has five units that cover different academic essay genres as well as an introductory warm-up unit Exploring the Essay .

The different essay genres are: Cause and Effect, Comparison, Argumentative, Problem-Solution, and Reaction. Hyland (2004) advocates this genre-based approach to writing which adds variety to student writing throughout the semester. The textbook uses outlining and transition word activities to make students notice essay structure. Students are asked to read the sample essay and then fill out an outline, and circle or choose transition words for an example essay. Students are sometimes asked to write the hook, thesis statement, and topic sentence of essays. Exposing students to many types of essays adds variety to the semester and is invaluable for them because students are often unfamiliar with the five-paragraph essay format. Even if you are not familiar with all of the essay genres, the textbook contains plenty of scaffolded material to guide you and your students through each genre.

My students are upper-intermediate second year university English majors. The objective of our writing course is to prepare students to write their graduation theses. The textbook is targeted at Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels B2 to C1. According to the textbook’s appendix, 53% of the included vocabulary is at the B2 level, and 29% of the vocabulary is C1 level. The material is challenging, but doable for my students. However, my students tend to write slowly. To save valuable class time, I have them underline the parts of the essay in their book rather than rewrite the sentences as is recommended in the instructions. In my class, along with the introductory unit, we selected three different units to cover, and thus three different genres of essays to write. We usually covered one example essay every week, and then students are assigned online homework from the textbook for review.

The topics of some of the sample essays are a little difficult for my students, for example, the essays about insomnia, parenting, or becoming an entrepreneur are sometimes outside the realm of their vocabulary level and life experiences. To help students, words they may not know are bolded and glossed in footnotes. The textbook is written completely in English, and there are no bilingual glosses. There are many current topics that engage students such as online shopping, urban versus rural living, school uniforms, and smartphones. Additional vocabulary and grammar exercises are in every unit as well.

The textbook comes with optional online homework on Heinle’s MyELT platform ( https://myelt.heinle.com ). While teaching online for the last two years, I made Google Forms activities that walked students through pages of the textbook (simulating what I normally would have done in a face-to-face class), and then I assigned the MyELT homework as usual. Although I have found the MyELT system difficult to use with other textbooks, the content for the Great Writing series is very straightforward. The premade MyELT assignments reduce the teacher’s burden of creating, collecting and checking homework.

The MyELT online homework system can take some time to get used to at first, but it is well worth the effort. To register, students and teachers must enter: their email address and name, the content code from inside their textbook, and the class code, which is automatically generated when a teacher creates a course. I recommend having students sign up with their university email to keep things orderly. By doing so, teachers can see student login names and reset student passwords. My students reported that they usually spend about 20 minutes per week on the online homework.

Overall, Great Writing: Great Essays 4 is a challenging yet supportive and versatile textbook for teaching the standard five-paragraph essay. The textbook uses a process writing and a genre-based approach to writing. There are plenty of supplementary activities and example essays both in print and online. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or novice teacher, Great Writing: Great Essays 4 offers plenty of customizable support for teachers and students.

Harmer, J. (2004). How to teach writing. Pearson.

Hyland, K. (2004). Genre and second language writing. University of Michigan Press.

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The new edition of the Great Writing series provides clear explanations, extensive models of academic writing and practice to help learners write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

With expanded vocabulary instruction, sentence-level practice, and National Geographic content to spark ideas, students have the tools they need to become confident writers.

Updated in this Edition:

Clearly organized units offer the practice students need to become effective independent writers.

Each unit includes:

Part 1: Elements of Great Writing teaches the fundamentals of organized writing, accurate grammar, and precise mechanics.

Part 2: Building Better Vocabulary provides practice with carefully-selected, level-appropriate academic words.

Part 3: Building Better Sentences helps writers develop longer and more complex sentences.

Part 4: Writing activities allow students to apply what they have learned by guiding them through writing, editing, and revising.

Part 5: New Test Prep section gives a test-taking tip and timed task to prepare for high-stakes standardized tests, including IELTs and TOEFL. The new guided online writing activity takes students through the entire writing process with clear models for reference each step of the way.

New Test Prep section gives a test-taking tip and timed task to prepare for high-stakes standardized tests, including IELTs and TOEFL.

Updated National Geographic content sparks ideas for refined academic writing.

The new guided online writing activity improves students ability to outline, draft, revise, and finalize their work.

Expanded Building Better Vocabulary highlights academic words, word associations, collocations, word forms, and vocabulary for writing.

Expanded Building Better Sentences helps writers develop longer and more complex sentences.

Great Writing provides clear explanations, academic writing models, and focused practice to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

A new unit structure offers students the targeted practice and skills they need to become competent writers
Updated Building Better Sentences starts with editing and finishes with sentence combining for more refined writing
Updated Building Better Vocabulary highlights academic words and gives many opportunities to practice
New Words to Know boxes highlight academic and carefully-leveled words that students will frequently use