Unit 6 - Writing

What is writing?

Writing is one of the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Writing and speaking are productive skills. That means they involve producing language rather than receiving it, as in listening and reading. Very simply, we can say that writing involves communicating a message by making signs on a page. To write we need to have something to communicate, and usually someone to communicate it to. We also need to be able to form letters and words, to join these together to make sentences or a series of sentences that link together and to communicate our message in such a way as to get our message across. We will look at how we do this.

Stages of writing.

Working out what you want to say

Working out the order in which you want to say it

Drafting/writing the first draft (the first version (or form) of a piece of writing, that may be changed)

Editing (correcting and improving the content of the text)

Proofreading (checking for mistakes in accuracy and correcting)

Re-drafting (writing a second/final version of your piece of witing)

  

Reference:

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2012). The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course Modules 1,2 and 3 (Vol. Second edition). United Kingdom: Cambridge English.