Essential Lessons

Individual in Community (ELL)

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. BU’s international students and English language learners (ELLs), often new to North American higher education, are poised to learn more about and start analyzing […]

Paraphrase & Quotation (ELL)

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. Most multilingual students, especially those newer to North American academic contexts, need work understanding and practicing paraphrase, as distinct from both quotation and from […]

Parts of Speech & Word Forms (ELL)

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. Multilingual students often need intensive work on word forms (affixes, parts of speech, and word families) to help them both in their reading and […]

Summary & Analysis

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. Students develop the closely related skills of reading and writing through sustained instruction in summary and analysis, where these skills meet. This lesson outlines […]