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Flipping my writing lessons

Flipping my writing lessons  Writing is a process that requires time and guidance. For this reason, this process has always been a struggle for my students. They came up with texts that did not have a well-organized structure and grounded ideas. I believed that they can do better with some guidance and extra work for them, but in-class time is used for different skills such as listening and reading; therefore, writing is a relegated skill.   In an intermediate English  level from a  private university,  students are asked to write a coherent and organized essay comparing and contrasting a current topic mostly related to technology, housing, hystory's mysteries, types of money transactions and professions.  So, as a teacher, a constant question I asked myself was how my students could write this type of essay using proper grammar, connectors and a sound rhetorical structure.  A dear friend  and colleague , Carolina R. Buitrago, told me that this dreamed writing lesson tha