Unit 6 WRITING

WRITING

One of the productive skills is writing. It is the biggest way how a learner can show her or his knowledge. There are different kinds of text that require a certain level of formality. When people start to write a text, they have to be very careful in grammar. Even though we know writing skills such as: narrating andsummarizingWe connect our ideas in a logical form and create a text with an introduction, body and conclusion trough paragraphs. To write the whole text need coherence and accuracy to be understandable for readers.

In addition, as teachers we need to take into account a process when we write or how we are going to teach learners to write. Well, teachers need to present topics that can get student’s attention and where students can brainstorm to get ideas. Writing has many important issues such as: correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, orthography and the format.

On the other hand, the process approach which procedure is very meaningfulness to learners because they can make personal connection to the topic. Here, learners follow a process: 1) pre-writing, students brainstorms and selects the main ideas to write a text. 2) Composing or drafting, students write for the first time. 3) Revising, in this step students have the opportunity to check spelling, grammar or accuracy. 4) Editing, it is the final step before follow up. Writing has to be complete and students make the final revision and editing.

But, also there is process genre model which consist in something very similar; it has six steps: a) preparation, where is defined what kind of topic. 2) modeling and reinforce, teacher provides a model. 3) planning, students brainstorm. 4) Joint constructing, students work with the teacher. 5) independent construction, students work alone. 6) revising, student make the final revision  and evaluate their work. It is very important to emphasize that teachers are involve in the process, not only at the end.

REFERENCES FOR ADITTIONAL INFORMATION

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• Healy Karen,. (2012)  Writing Skills for Social Workers. Retrieved 29 April 2015, from:  https://books.google.com.ec/books?id=0YsQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78&dq=importance+of+writing+skills&hl=es&sa=X&ei=AX5CVaCfBMSdNqzTgYAM&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=importance%20of%20writing%20skills&f=false 
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