Writing as a process
Name the 4 stages of the process approach
1. Pre-writing
2. Making a draft
3. Revising
4. Editing
Name the two core elements for the Writing as Product Approach.
What are accuracy and content?
Mention 5 approaches to teaching writing.
1.Controlled to free approach
2. Free writing approach
3. Paragraph Pattern approach
4. Grammar-syntax-Organization
5. Communicative approach
The characteristics of written language can be approached to from two different and contrasting points of view:
The reader's and the writter's point of view.
Reading/Writing performance can be defined as:
the ability to modify one’s behavior in reaction to a stimulus in order to communicate using written language.
In this stage the writer has finished making the editing part, he/she should read the text, preferably out loud.
editing and proofreading
This refers to how to correct learners' use of the language system.
What is Accuracy?
Mention some activities that can be performed with students in the parragraph-pattern approach.
Imitating model paragraphs, putting scrambled sentences in order, identifying or writing topic sentences, and inserting or deleting sentences
Explain the reader's point of view on permanence
The reader has the opportunity to return again to the written material if he needs to check a word, phrase or even the whole text.
Name the types of reading performance
Oral and silent reading.
Guided oral reading
Silent reading
Intensive and extensive reading
This step focuses on getting feedback of the first draft.
Explain the product writing approach.
is an approach to teaching writing that focuses on students' final production (the text they are asked to produce.)
This approach stresses the purpose of a piece of writing and the audience for it.
The communicative approach
Explain the writer's point of view on distance
The writer needs to be able to predict the audience's general knowledge, cultural and literary schemata, and how their choice of language will be interpreted.
Name the types of writing performance
Academic writing
Technical/vocational writing
During this stage, the writer puts his ideas into complete thoughts, such as sentences and paragraphs.
What is drafting?
It refers to the way the information is organized and presented to express what is intended to an audience.
What is Content?
in this approach, teachers should let student write independently on a topic of their interest.
Free-writing approach
This characteristic is considered the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage, punctuation is also considered a part of it.
Spelling/ Ortography
An academic paper has three distinct sections, name them.
the introduction, body and conclusion.
This stage of the writing process involves the generation of ideas.
What is Pre-writing?
Mention the 4 key elements of this approach.
1. Language
2. Layout and organization
3. Relevance to the task
4. Clarity
Mention the characteristics the free writing activities must have.
-They should be quick.
- They should be time-limited
-They should be done.
-They should not be always.
It refers to how well you follow standard English conventions, how often you use slang or idioms, how objective you are about your topic, and how familiar or intimate you assume you are with readers.
What is formality?
The main purpose of technical writing is..
To provide sometimes complex information