Saturday, July 11, 2020
Writing Essays Using New York Times Essay Topics
Writing Essays Using New York Times Essay TopicsWhy do you need to use the New York Times essay topics? Why not use some other question and answer type thing instead? You see this is a problem in an essay. A major one.How do I know this? Because this is how I have been taught in a college - and it is extremely important point.If you take it the wrong way and start just going through the passages and asking yourself 'what do I think this person is trying to say here?' You will miss a major critical reading and miss an opportunity to really develop your ability to read.This is the most crucial aspect of all in writing. It is so important that, as an ESL Teacher in Japan, I know that if I told my students to simply write down what they heard, that is all they would be able to do. This is because we have to teach them to read properly - to comprehend meaning.The New York Times essay topics are not for just memorizing anything that someone says in an essay. They are for learning how to re ad, and if you want to write for a living, then you need to know the words and the meanings of them.The New York Times essay topics are for reading them. When I am doing my research, I look at the papers from the past decade to find out what kind of questions were asked.In other words, I want to find out what the questions were that students ask their teachers and what's essays. I then compare this with what I find in the papers and I try to extrapolate and make an educated guess as to what the students are really trying to say.I have found that the best way to make your students learn from your essay topics is to actually look at the essays that they are doing and figure out what they really mean. This gives you a chance to help them do it right on the fly.
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