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Developing Writing Skills

Developing Writing Skills. Ling-hsia Chen National Taiwan University. Elements of Communication. AUTHOR AUDIENCE LANGUAGE SUBJECT. Goals of Writing. Expressive writing situations personal feelings, thoughts (the writer) Referential (expository) writing situations

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Developing Writing Skills

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  1. DevelopingWriting Skills Ling-hsia Chen National Taiwan University

  2. Elements of Communication AUTHORAUDIENCE LANGUAGE SUBJECT

  3. Goals of Writing • Expressive writing situations personal feelings, thoughts (the writer) • Referential (expository) writing situations facts, information (outside subject) • Persuasive writing situations argument (the reader’s support, action)

  4. The Writing Process The Writing Process Planning Drafting The Essay Revising

  5. The Writing Process Planning • thinking about your purpose and audience • deciding what to write about • developing ideas • gathering details

  6. The Writing Process (cont’d) Drafting • connecting ideas • deciding the order of details • incorporating new ideas Revising • deciding what works and what doesn’t • changing the draft to improve it

  7. Four Principles • Start with a clearly stated point. • Organize and connect your supporting material • Provide logical, detailed support for your point. • Revise and edit to have error-free and effective sentences

  8. Basic Shape of Writing Paragraph Structure • topic sentence • supporting sentences sensory details, facts, statistics, examples, anecdotes • concluding sentence

  9. Paragraph • A paragraph is a group of sentences, organized to state or support one main idea. Together, the sentences make the main idea clear. It usually consists an opening point called a topic sentence followed by a series of sentencessupporting that point.

  10. Pre-Writing Activities • Keeping a writer’s journal • Free writing • Brainstorming • Clustering • Asking questions

  11. Brainstorming Topic: Summer job at a convenience store 1. 8 hours a day, 7 days a week 2. Went to work at 6 a.m. got back at 5 p.m. 3. Only had 30 minutes for lunch break 4. A chance to meet different people 5. Convenience stores are booming these days.

  12. Brainstorming 6. Most customers were there to kill time. 7. Lifted heavy cartons of merchandise for at least half a day 8. A risky job 9. There are 4 convenience stores in my neighborhood. 10. No pay for lunch break 11. Didn’t know how to operate a cash register at the beginning

  13. Brainstorming 12. Could not remember the locations of different goods 13. Bosses yelled at me sometimes 14.Pay was only NT$79 per hour, $100 for overtime 15. Have to stand all the time 16. Co-workers were unfriendly

  14. A Scratch Outline • My experience of working at a convenient store was bad. 1. Hard work 2. Poor Pay 3. Poor interpersonal relationships

  15. Topic Sentence = Your Viewpoint How to come up with a topic sentence • Purpose statement My purpose is to describe to my classmates the experience of working at a convenience store. I will focus on hard work, poor pay, and poor personal relationships.

  16. Clustering Summer Jobs kitchen a 2-year-old waiter babysitting restaurant Convenience store manager summer jobs car washing factory 8 hours per day 7-eleven computer chips

  17. Clustering mean boss unfriendly co-workers bad working environment Job at convenience store NT$79 an hour hard work poor pay long work hours lift heavy merchandise NT$100 for overtime stand all the time

  18. Asking Questions • When did it happen? • Where did it happen? • Who was involved? • What is my opinion of it? • How did I react? • Why did I react in this way? • What can I suggest about it?

  19. Four Bases of Writing Unity Every word, phrase, or sentence directly supports the topic sentence. Support Support the point with specific evidence Coherence Organize and connect the specific evidence

  20. Four Bases of Writing (cont’d) • Transitions • Using Pronouns • Repetition, Restatement, and Variation Effective Sentences Write clear, error-free sentences • Use parallelism. • Use a consistent point of view. • Use concise words. • Vary your sentences.

  21. Strategies of Development • Description • Illustration • Classification • Process Analysis • Comparison and Contrast • Narration • Cause-and-effect • Definition • Persuasive Argument

  22. Evaluating Written Work • Worthwhile content Does the writing worth reading? • Sensible organization Is the writer’s line of thinking easy to follow? • Readable style Is the style economical and convincing?

  23. CEEC Grading Standard Rank Score • Outstanding 19-20 • Excellent 15-18 • Good 10-14 • Poor 5-9 • Bad 1-4

  24. 大考中心作文評分標準 • 級距 分數 • 特優 19-20 • 優 15-18 • 可 10-14 • 差 5-9 • 劣 1-4

  25. The End

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