1. Writing for Purpose Essential Skills

2. Essential Skills for Home and Work
Know how to fill in forms, write letters, s, reports
Identify and understand specialist words
Identify the way that language is used for different purposes

3. 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?

4. The Writing Process
Plan
Draft
Edit
Proofread
Final Copy

5. 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,
Lists with notes
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6. First draft Extend thoughts and ideas
Re-arrange into an organised sequence
Can the reader understand the text?
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7. 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?

8. Publish Presentation: Does it look good?
Can it be read? Is it legible?