EN 2201:
Practical and Professional Writing IV
Writing skills: evaluate their own and other’s
writing
· Self-evaluation
and peer evaluation: design criteria for evaluation - Discuss in groups about
what makes a good piece of writing? Whole class discussion. List criteria on
the blackboard. The list should include the following:
- Content: relevancy to the topic / to the reader,
interest, length
- Organization: logic in order of arrangement,
coherence, unity
- Style: variety in sentences, precise vocabulary,
appropriacy to purpose
- Language: correct sentence stricture / spelling /
punctuation
- Appearance: neatness, layout, standard format (as
in business letters)
Summary writing
· Focus: reading
carefully to get the meaning, note down the important points. Note the length
prescribed for the summary. Write the first draft in your own words. Revise,
write the summary and provide a title
· Language: should
be written in full sentences, using the same tense as in the passage. Avoid
examples / quotations / repetition / explanation or expansion / figures of
speech
Informative, descriptive and expository writing
· Focus: form
sentences and paragraphs which express connection between information and ideas precisely,
e.g. cause and result, comparison
· Activities:
Expanding a variety of headlines into articles, reports based on graphs /
charts, writing speeches and reading them out, writing memos, minutes etc.
Persuasive and argumentative writing
· Text types:
Letters to news papers in response to a controversial article
- Collect facts, organize a class debate
- Argument / opinion about personal values, civil /
national / cultural issues.
- Campaign literature
· Languages focus:
develop logical arguments giving examples, use language to gain attention and
sustain interest
Writing a newspaper page
· Generate topics
and ideas by brainstorming and webbing, discussing topics, interviewing, etc.
· Organize ideas by
selecting and ordering relevant ideas and information
· Drafting:
contribute ideas and language for collaborative composition
· Conferencing with
the teacher, redrafting
· Editing, proof
reading and publishing
Analytic writing
· Activities:
Reports based on notes / questionnaires etc.
· Focus: Reflect on
the nature and significance of the subject matter, Organize ideas and
information distinguishing between analysis and comment, Form their own view taking
into account a range of evidence and opinions.
