Assignment Development of

Writing skills

Topic The Writing Skills

Submitted To Ma’am Sana Urooj

Submitted By Noman Arshad

Department BBA 1st semester

Roll No 19614
 Development of Writing Skills
 Writing Skills
 Written Communicative Activities
 Types of Writing
 The writing process
 Strategies to Improve Writing Skills
Writing Skill
 Basic writing skills are Handwriting, Spelling, Punctuation and
sentence construction.
 Writing is a complex and purposeful act of communication that is
accomplished in a variety of time with a variety of language
resources and technologies.
 Writing skills are specific abilities which help the writers put their
thoughts.
 It is an ability to write correct sentences and pronounced correct
words and grammar.
 It is an ability to read and write the phases and paragraph without
doing any mistakes.
Written Communicative Activities
 Relaying instructions
 Exchanging letters
 Fluency writing
 Writing games
 Story construction
 Writing reports and advertisement
Relaying Instructions
 Making models
 Giving direction
 Writing commands
 Writing message
Exchanging Letters
 Inviting
 The complaining customers
 The job application
Writing Games
 Describe people and identify
 Describe events and identify
Story Construction
 The teacher gives the topic of any idea or thoughts to the students.
 The students write a story on the topic which is given by his
teacher.
Fluency Writing
a) The picture story
  Students are shown a picture sequence and told to write about it.
 Students are told that they are going to do some free writing within
a certain time limit.
 When the time limit expires the teacher stops the students and
collects the work.
Writing reports and advertisements
b) The news broadcast
 The class discuss what makes a successful advertisement.
 The class is divided into groups. They are told their tasks is to
select a product and write an advertisement for it which will
appear in magazines.
 When they done their work. Alternatively they can be given a
period of time to design the artwork for their text. The
advertisement can then be pinned to class notice board.
Types of Writing
 Expository Writing
 Persuasive Writing
 Narrative Writing
 Descriptive Writing
 Expository Writing: The most common types of writing skills.
Expository writing usually explains something in a process.
Expository writing firmly concentrates on advising or explaining
things. I.e. Textbook writing.
 Persuasive Writing: Opposite to the expository writing, it states the
opinion, justification, explanation and a point of view of the writer
and attempts to convince the reader. I.e. complain letters, Editorial
page.
 Narrative Writing: Narrative writing style, simply narrates a story to
the readers. This writing style likewise uses creative writing – use of
imagination and creativity.
 For example: Novels, Short stories, Poetry and so on.
 Narrative writing often has situations like actions, motivational events,
emotions, problems and their solutions etc.
 Descriptive Writing: This writing style generally describes a lot
more then remaining styles. Thus descriptive writing’s main purpose
is to describe and describe. It is used to create a vivid picture of an
idea, place or person. It is much like painting with words.
I.e. Poetry, Dairy writing and so on.
The Writing Process
PREWRITING: Think and decide
 Make sure you understand your assignment. See research papers or
essays.
 Decide on a topic to write about.
 Consider who will read your work. See audience.
RESEARCH (If needed): Search
  List places where you can find information. See doing research.
 Do your research.
 Make an outline to help organize your research.
DRAFTING: Write
 Put the information you researched into your own words. See
Paraphrase and Summary
 Write sentences and paragraphs even if they are not perfect
 Write some more. See incorporating references.
 Read it again.
 Write some more.
 Read it again.
 Write until you have said everything you want to say about the topic.
REVISING: Make it better
 Read what you have written again.
 Rearrange words, sentences or paragraphs.
 Do more research if you think you should?
 Replace over used or unclear words.
 Read your writing aloud to be sure it flows smoothly.
EDITING AND PROOFREADING: Make it correct
 Be sure all sentences are complete.
 Correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
 Change words that are not used correctly or are unclear.
 Make sure you are using the appropriate style formatting.
Strategies to Improve Writing skills
 Daily dairy writing may improve our writing skills.
 Daily writing an essay on any topic may improve our writing skill as
well as creative skills.
 Reading a passage from book and write it in your own words.
 Read a good writer’s book and try to copy his/her writing style.
 Practice writing simple letters to improve writing as well as
communicative skill.
 Speaking or reading stories, novels, essays and paragraphs may also
help to improve our writing skills.