1. Support for English, maths and ESOL Level 3 Award in English for literacy and language teaching Writing master class

2. Session aims
To review and extend participants’ personal literacy relating to writing
To design written texts (plan, draft, write and proof-read)

3. Outcomes
By the end of the session participants will have considered how to:
Plan appropriately according to audience, purpose and situation
Draft, using techniques at text, sentence and word level
Write fluently, coherently and cohesively
Write accurately and legibly using conventions of lexis and syntax, to include grammar, spelling and punctuation appropriate to purpose
Edit and proof-read at text, sentence and word level

4. Structure and social purpose of texts
Clear awareness of:
the purpose of the text
its social context
the intended audience
will make it easier to decide on an appropriate structure and lexis and so produce an effective text.

5. Elements that influence the language and structure of texts
Audience
Mode
Topic
Purpose

6. Organisation of texts
To organise any text into a coherent whole, writers and speakers need to keep their readers and listeners well informed about where they are and where they are going…
Grammatical resources … signpost the way… from the beginning to end of a text.
Using Functional Grammar, Butt D, Fahey R, Feez S, Spinks S, Yallop C (2000), Maquarie University

7. Back-referencing
“Reader, I married him.” Who is ‘I’? Who is ‘him’? How can you decide?