Unit 6 Writing

 Unit 6 

Writing 

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Writing forms part of the four language skills, it is a productive skill because we are going to produce something.

Writing is about communication through messages by making signs on a page. To do it, it is necessary to have a purpose and someone to whom is delivered. In addition, we must know how to do letters and words as well as how to join them in sentences with links and to be sure, that is going to be well communicated.

According to Spratt, Pulverness, & Williams (2011), there are some Key Concepts to take into account to deliver a writing class. Everybody has written at least a shopping list, a postcard, or short or long texts; these are text types they have different characteristics like just words, layouts, formality degrees, and text order. The complexity of grammar depends on the purpose of the writing.

Some subskills about writing are related to accuracy and related to communication. For accuracy, the part of spelling, letters, joining letters, legible, punctuation, layouts, choice of vocabulary, grammar, sentences, and use of paragraphs have to be correct to accomplish it. For communication, we have to be sure that style and register are appropriate, organization of ideas in a helpful way, the use of appropriate functions for example complaining, requesting, thanking, summarizing, narrating, and concluding. This helps the writer to have a well organized and focused paper.

There are stages of writing:

1. Getting ideas for example a brainstorming activity.
2. Organizing ideas.
3. Drafting the first version of the work.
4. Editing, in this part the writer has to correct and improve the text.
5. Proofreading is focused on accuracy mistakes to correct.
6. Re-drafting, this one is the final version.

As we can see, writing requires a lot of thinking processes to develop ideas, for example, a logical structure with topic sentences in each paragraph and cohesive devices to link sentences in a text.

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From this Unit, I learned about writing, the difficulty could vary depending on the level of students we have studied since school to write letters and to connect sentences. Linking is an important feature to take into consideration because without it we cannot understand the activities order written in the text, and the steps to follow to get perfect writing.

According to Elise, S. (2020, May 26), there are many activities that we can use as future teachers.

One activity is doing a comic book; students are required to use an appropriate function, level of formality, adequate layout. They will do everything unconscious because they are going to focus on the task.

Another activity is to make an essay and the teacher works with them as a guide with a template or an example. This helps students to be able to make mistakes and have quick feedback.

Bibliography

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The Tkt, Teaching Knowledge Test, course: modules 1, 2 and 3. Cambridge University Press.

Elise, S. (2020, May 26). 10 Fun Writing Activities for Kids to Improve Writing Skills. My cup runs over. https://mycuprunsover.ca/fun-writing-activities-for-kids/.

Extra material:

MasterClass. (2020, October 2). 8 Creative Writing Exercises to Strengthen Your Writing - 2020. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/creative-writing-exercises-to-strengthen-your-writing.

Seifert, S. 5 Activities Guaranteed to Get Your Students Excited About ESL Writing Practice. https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/esl-writing-practice/.