UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA

COOPERATIVE WRITING
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION
DEPARTAMENTO DE LENGUAS Y LITERATURAS MODERNAS
LENGUA INLGESA II

STEP I: Focus on coherence and global aspects of composing.

Read the composition and share your views.

Consider the following questions to guide your discussion:

1. What is your overall impression of this text as far as coherence is concerned?

2. Does the story have the prototypical elements of the macrostructure of stories?
Identify the elements.

3. Does the text follow the problem-solution pattern for story writing?

4. How does the presence of a title impact on your interpretation of this text?

5. What’s the point of view in the story?

6. Can you infer / supply what is missing without difficulty?

7. Are there two possible interpretations at any point for any part of this story? Where?
Why? Is this a problem?

8. Is the information provided relevant?

9. Are ideas, words or phrases repeated?

10. Is there contradictory information? If so, how would you improve it?

11. Choose one element of coherence from this text which is unclear to you, and justify.
What would you have needed to know, as reader of this text, to be able to follow it
better?

sk questions, ask for clarification, give your opinion, give examples, make
suggestions for improvement on these aspects, etc.

13. Is the passage, quote or picture coherently introduced and developed?