Teaching Writing Skills

1. Teaching Writing Skills Writing is a communicative skill to send, store and retrieve messages with the help of written symbols.

2. Characteristics of Written Language • Permanence • Production time • Distance • Orthography • Complexity • Vocabulary • Formality

3. Microskills for Writing Some are as follows: • Produce graphemes and orthographic patterns of English • Produce writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose • Produce an acceptable core of words and use appropriate word orderpatterns • Use acceptable grammatical systems, patterns, and rules • Express a particular meaning in diff. grammatical forms • Use cohesive devices in written discourse • Use the rhetorical forms and conventions of written discourse • Appropriately accomplish the communicative functions of written texts • Distinguish between literal and implied meanings when writing • Develop and use a battery of writing strategies.

4. Principles for Designing Writing Techniques • Incorporate practices of "good" writers • Account for cultural/literary backgrounds • Connect reading and writing • Provide as much authentic writing as possible • Frame your techniques in terms of prewriting, drafting, and revising stages

5. Types of Classroom Writing Performance • Imitative or writing down • Intensive or controlled • Self-writing • Display writing • Real writing • Academic • Vocational/technical • Personal

6. Some Writing (Practice) Activities • Sentences • Short reports and descriptions • Linking words • Text completion • Flowcharts • Pictures