LING 3P91 Lecture 5: Lecture 3: Teaching Writing Skills
1 Jan 2019
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Taking notes, writing assignment info, new vocab. Use writing to display what they have learned. Every act of writing has a specific purpose. The goal is to produce a correct, well-formed paragraph or essay or whatever which a teacher will evaluate. Other exercises might include text completion, sentence construction from substitution tables, parallel writing. Process of writing just as important as the end product. Process of writing is the writer moving backwards and forward between drafting and revising, with replanning in-between. Teacher gives tasks a purpose and context. Student not thinking of their written message just from their perspective but how a reader will react to it. Students read their rough drafts and evaluate it. The structure of a paragraph, essay, business letter etc. The structure of components such as intro and conclusions. Make observations about what went well and could be improved upon.
