UNIT 6 - WRITING

UNIT 6 – WRITING

Writing is the process of using letters of the alphabet, words or sentences to communicate thoughts and ideas. Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., and Williams, M. (2011), says writing involves producing a language, a written language. It involves communication. It is a productive skill. When you write is need to be able to form letters, words, sentences or paragraphs.

Writing takes into account text type when someone writes.  Text types imply different kinds of writing with different characteristics such as letters, essays, emails, text messages, among others. Also, National Literacy Trust (2012), explains that three genres of writing are Narrative (mystery, adventure, fables), Non- fiction (recounts, instructional texts) and poetry (free verse, visual poems, structured poems).  Writing involves using subskills and some are related to accuracy and communicating. Accuracy is the correct use of language. It has some subskills like spelling, legibility, punctuation, grammar or vocabulary. Communicating includes appropriate use of style and register, the use of features, the way words and sentences are joining with using appropriate functions to show the meaning.

Furthermore, Alves (2018), expresses that writing is composed of stages. The first is planning where writers organize their ideas. The second is drafting where writers create the first version. The third is editing that is improving the content of a text. The fourth is proofreading which refers to check mistakes. The last is re-drafting where writers write the final version.

To conclude, I could learn a lot of facts about writing, for instance, I learned that text type is considered when a person writes because it is all kinds of writings with different characteristics. In addition, writing has some subskills related to accuracy and communicating. Writing is also composed of stages that writers apply in the writing process such as planning or editing.

Teachers can teach writing their students with the following activities have been taken from DDEUBEL (2019).

-          The teacher writes a sentence on a piece of paper on a specific topic and makes a paper ball with the sheet. Then, the teacher throws the paper ball to a student so that he or she writes a new sentence. The paper ball is thrown at the other students and they do write their sentences. After that, the teacher writes all the sentences on the board. In the end, a student goes to the board to put all the ideas together in a paragraph.

-          The teacher asks students to make a group report on the weather of the day they are in. Next, students have to exchange their weather reports with other groups and they have to correct the grammatical mistakes of their classmates' reports.

References

Alves, A. R. (2018, 7). Writing process. Retrieved from https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/cels/essays/languageteaching/AReisAlvesProcessWritingLTM.pdf

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT Course Modules 1, 2 and 3 (Second). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Trust, N. L. (2012). A Guide to Text Types. Retrieved from https://www.thomastallisschool.com/uploads/2/2/8/7/2287089/guide_to_text_types_final-1.pdf