LING 2P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phoneme, Fine Motor Skill, List Of Fables Characters
30 Jun 2018
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Defining writing
● Writing is about creating a particular text
○ Story writing different from other forms of writing
■ Require different cognitive abilities, kids have different exposure, different
form etc
● Fine line between normal and disordered writing
○ Writing difficulties are more in terms of a degree
● Writing is not any one thing
○ It is a transcription process
■ Physical act of putting language on page and making it visible
○ It is an act of spelling and crafting sentences and paragraphs
○ It is a demonstration of knowledge
■ How people determine what we know
○ It is a type of communication
■ Type of entertainment, persuasion and connecting socially
○ It is a tool
■ A memory aid, like grocery list, or personal reflection, like a journal
○ It is learning mechanism
■ Through writing comes to understands topic is a new or deeper way
● Writing has different purposes
○ Communicative
○ Storage and preservation
● Writing has different context
○ Physical locations
○ Solitary or social
■ When social it is done in verbal or play with others
○ Audience
● Text
○ A piece of writing done for a particular purpose
○ Has linguistic constraints
■ Spelling punctuation
● Genre
○ Distinctive type of text
■ Narrative, persuasive, factual
○ Each has linguistic constraints at the text level and sentence level
Process of writing
● Complex mental process
● A problem solving activity
○ 3 overlapping/recursive stages (recursive means we can return to earlier stages)
■ Planning
● Retrieve info, organize it, set goals, develop strategies
■ Generation
● Transform ideas into language: choose words and sentence
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Document Summary
Writing is about creating a particular text. Story writing different from other forms of writing. Require different cognitive abilities, kids have different exposure, different form etc. Fine line between normal and disordered writing. Writing difficulties are more in terms of a degree. Physical act of putting language on page and making it visible. It is an act of spelling and crafting sentences and paragraphs. Type of entertainment, persuasion and connecting socially. A memory aid, like grocery list, or personal reflection, like a journal. Through writing comes to understands topic is a new or deeper way. When social it is done in verbal or play with others. A piece of writing done for a particular purpose. Each has linguistic constraints at the text level and sentence level. 3 overlapping/recursive stages (recursive means we can return to earlier stages) Retrieve info, organize it, set goals, develop strategies. Transform ideas into language: choose words and sentence structures.
