Writing for Purpose Essential Skills
Essential Skills for Home and Work Know how to fill in forms, write letters, e-mails, reports Identify and understand specialist words Identify the way that language is used for different purposes
Different Styles of Text Writing a blog or an article: Consider the audience: who is the article/blog aimed at? Writing to persuade? Examples of persuasive words Writing to inform? Use of images?
The Writing Process Plan Draft Edit Proofread Final Copy
The importance of planning Why is planning important? Ideas: what do I want to say? How do I want to say it? Who will read it? Order of information Paragraphs Planning tools Mind mapping: Inspiration, https://www.mindmeister.com Lists with notes commons.wikimedia.org
First draft Extend thoughts and ideas Re-arrange into an organised sequence Can the reader understand the text? Writing Challenge | by Gene Wilburn: www.flickr.com
Revise Proof read: have I read what I have written? Should I add any thing or have I written too much? Have I used the best words? Do my sentences make sense? Is my punctuation correct? Is my spelling correct? www.flickr.com
Publish Presentation: Does it look good? Can it be read? Is it legible? www.pexels.com