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    This document discusses developing writing skills and identifies several key aspects of writing including purpose, audience, text types, challenges, sub-skills, and approaches. It notes writing requires consideration of purpose and audience, is often formal, and forces students to reveal themselves through permanent works. The document also outlines a seven-stage process approach to writing instruction incorporating motivation, analysis, idea generation, organization, drafting, peer feedback, and revising.

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    This document discusses developing writing skills and identifies several key aspects of writing including purpose, audience, text types, challenges, sub-skills, and approaches. It notes writing requires consideration of purpose and audience, is often formal, and forces students to reveal themselves through permanent works. The document also outlines a seven-stage process approach to writing instruction incorporating motivation, analysis, idea generation, organization, drafting, peer feedback, and revising.

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    Developing writing skills

    Overview
     What do we write? Why?
     How is writing different to speaking?
     Purpose, audience and genre
     What sub-skills are involved?
     Process and product approaches
     Stages in a writing lesson
     Assessment of writing
    What have you written recently? Why?
    Who to?
    Purpose

    Audience

    In/formality
    Text types
     Emails
     Letters
     Stories
     Poems
     Guides, instructions
     Lists
     Notes
     Applications/form-filling
     Messages (inc. texts)
    Why is writing difficult?
     It is often formal, carefully organised
     It forces students to reveal themselves: it is permanent and
    public
     The student must consider the audience
     Ambiguity cannot be clarified: delayed feedback, if any
     Absence of negotiation or communicative strategies
     Script (for non-Romance language students)
    Writing sub-skills
    Script
    Spelling
    Punctuation
    Vocabulary
    Grammar
    Organisation
    Coherence/cohesion
    Style
    Process and Product approaches
    Stages in a process approach
    1. Introduction: create motivation and interest via visuals,
    texts, discussion

    2. Analyse the task: genre, purpose, audience


    3. Generate ideas: brainstorming, creating content
    4. Organise into paragraphs consistent with task
    5. Draft paragraphs consistent with 2 above
    6. Exchange drafts for peer feedback on content and
    language

    7. Re-draft, edit, final text

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