Why write?

• To communicate over distances

• To communicate across time

• To participate in society

• To remember and record

• To “make thought visible” and express your inner self

Notes emails letters essays stories

Signs advertisements subtitles articles

Diaries/journals magazines plays recipes

Labels/brands brochures maps textbooks

How we write

These are the steps in

the writing process

.

What are the steps?

PrewritingDrafting

Editing / Revising

Presenting

#1 Prewriting Planning and Thinking

Getting yourthoughts down on paper.

Free-write, outline, notesDiscuss, think

EXAMPLES

• Brainstorming / Vocabulary

• Surveying / forms

• Researching / Discussion

Authors must think about….

• The purpose of their writing

• The audience they are writing for

• The content

(structure / sequence)

( genre / register)

#2 Writing

First Draft

Putting your ideas and thoughts

together

Forming sentences and paragraphs

#3 – Editing

Revising and Reflecting

Rewriting or rearranging sentences.

Getting feedbackProofreading

# 4 Presenting

Final Draft

Sharing your work

publishing, speaking

The whole process

Conclusions? What are the BENEFITS

AND DRAWBACKS

of using the Writing Process in our classrooms?

DRAWBACKS

• Takes too much time • Loss of student focus / interest

• Not suited to some personalities

• Students need to be taught it (peer editing / planning / stages)

• Restricts spontaneity and range of writing activities.

Benefits• The creation of a product• Writing seen as a communicative and

purposeful activity

• Teaches students to plan and research

• Student collaboration is developed.

• Feedback and response given.

• “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” -- Jules Renard

• Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?  ~Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.

Speaking Vs Writing

Speaking Vs Writing

We have produced a Venn Diagram object. Each part is a separate PowerPoint object, so you can colour them as you please

Impermanent Permanent

Immediate (unplanned) Delayed (planned)

Variation / Casual Conventional / Stylized

Low lexical density High lexical density

High Paralinguistics Low Paralinguistics

Communal activity Solitary Activity

Universal Learned

Simple sentences Complex sentences

Voiced Thought / Read

Pronounce Spell

Feedback No feedback

Pause / Intonation Punctuation

Speaking Vs Writing

http://eflclassroom.ning.com

http://eflclassroom.ning.com