UNIT 6

WRITING

Writing is a productive skill it means that it involves producing language rather than receiving it that’s why it is really complex for students to develop it in a successful way but there are some strategies or techniques that help us to get better at writing.

Regarding to different degrees of formality it engages which type of register we are going to use in our writing it depends on to whom we are writing e.g. if we write a letter for a close friend we use a informal language that involves the different level of complexity of grammar, or we can also use idioms or vocabulary.

On the other hand, writing also involves using writing subskills. Some of these are related to accuracy it refers to use the correct forms of language such as spelling, forming letters correctly, joining letters together, punctuation, using correct layouts (different ways of ordering information), choosing the proper vocabulary, and using grammar properly. In addition, if we use those subskills we have to take into account the proper style and register, and organizing ideas.

In order to start writing something in a helpful way we need to know the stages of writing. First, we have to work out what we want to say by collecting ideas then we work out the order in which we want to say it by planning or organizing ideas. Second, we start writing our first draft which can be changed. Third, we have to edit it by correcting the content of the text. Fourth we look for mistakes in accuracy and correcting this is called proofreading and finally we have the re-drafting it refers to the second final version of our piece of writing. Those stages let learners write in a correct way any text type which contain the two main components chorenece and cohesion and I as teacher I will ask my students to follow the stages to ease the development of this skill.

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Videos: 

YouTube,. (2015). Writing Lessons : How to Teach Writing Skills to ESL Students. Retrieved 1 May 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNoMbNBgrI

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