Writing
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The document outlines the steps involved in the writing process, including getting ideas, planning, writing, responding, and revising. It emphasizes that writing is an iterative process that involves rewriting and revising. When writing effectively, the text recommends making it interesting and getting involved. Planning involves analyzing elements like participants, intention, place, and time. Writing should have a good beginning and end, with well-ordered paragraphs of the right length starting with a main sentence. Revising is essential to detect and change deficiencies.
Writing
- 1. Writing NA1 Teacher: Inma Garín
- 2. Steps in writing Getting ideas (looking for content) Planning Writing Responding Reviewing Evaluating
- 3. Writing is rewriting and revising
- 4. How to write effectively Make your text interesting Get involved in your writing Writing is a socially relevant practice
- 5. Planning Analyze the elements of the communicative situation: participants, intention, place and time Find useful words or sentences: let me begin; let me turn to; as I said earlier; however; so let me finish
- 6. Writing Find a good beginning and a good end because opening and closing paragraphs are crucial Paragraphs should be ordered and have a sense of wholeness in meaning and form. They should start with the main sentence and have the right length, neither too short nor too long
- 7. Operations Connecting Cohesion Modalization Factors involved Syntactic competence Lexical competence Textual cohesion
- 8. Qualities Interesting Convincing Original
- 9. Revising Evaluating Detecting deficiencies Changing them
- 11. Procedure Global aspects Sentence relations Sentence level Pragmatic Discourse situation Text Organisers Sentence structure & Speaker’s markers Semantic Semantic coherence & register Coherence & Cohesion Lexical appropriacy & coherence Morphologic & Syntactic Structure & Tenses Substitution Connectors Agreement Syntax & Morphology & Spelling Material aspects Layout Segmentation & Punctuation Punctuation & Capitals
- 12. Guide for revision Have I made the focal idea clear? Have I chosen the appropriate level of formality? Have I divided the text in appropriate segments? Have I put the segments into an appropriate order? Have I made the connections between the ideas in the text, either implicitly or explicitly? Have I used grammatical structures, word order, punctuation to help me convey my meaning? Have I edited my text for errors? Is the presentation clear?