UNIT 6: WRITING

 WRITING

 Writing is other of the four skills. It is a productive skills, it means that it involves producing language rather than receiving it. When you write you are communicating through the message, symbols and letters. In writing also you can find the degree of formality but it depends on who you are writing to. You can write different text types according the situation also the vocabulary that you choose should be at the same level. Complex vocabulary should be a problem for whom don’t know much English. Good writing should be accurately, comprehensible. The paragraphs have to follow the sequence and the sentences have to have accuracy. Writing has subskills related to accuracy and communicating ideas. Related to accuracy are: spelling correctly, forming letters, joining letter together, punctuating, using correct layouts, choosing right vocabulary, using grammar correctly and so on. Writing subskills related to communicating ideas are: using appropriate style of register, organizing ideas, appropriate functions to express meaning and so on. Good writer needs to apply all these writing subskills at the moment to write. Also, in writing activities we need to follow some stages of writing: Drafting (first version), Editing (correcting and improving the content), proofreading (checking mistakes) and Re- drafting (final version). To teach writing first it is better to model what they have to do in each activities provided. After, I will make a group then I will provide many activities that help students to practice accuracy, for example, gap filling, sentences transformations, note- taking and ask them to create a graphic organizer so doing it they can practice writing.

References for additional information

Writing Skills 

• Writing Skills | SkillsYouNeed 2011-2015, (. (2015). Writing Skills | SkillsYouNeed. Skillsyouneed.com. Retrieved 22 April 2015, from http://www.skillsyouneed.com/writing-skills.html

  British Museum - What is writing?

• Britishmuseum.org,. (2015). British Museum - What is writing? . Retrieved 23 April 2015, from http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/
  
  

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