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"Teaching and Developing Writing Skills is an essential resource for anyone who wants to improve their learners' ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in writing, which has become an increasingly important skill for the digital age. This book explores different approaches to teaching writing, offering practical guidance that is underpinned by background theory. Covering all language levels from A1 to C2, the activities support and develop learners' written communication skills. This enables them to effectively write for exams, share information and ideas in academic situations and the workplace, and navigate everyday situations such as completing forms"--
List of contents
1 Writing about yourself and other people Example genres: class profiles, introductory email (e.g. to homestay family), business CV, job application, online work profile, descriptions of people, family history, childhood experiences 2 Writing to people you know Example genres: invitations, personal catch up, announcing news, congratulations, asking for help/favours, asking for and responding to advice 3 Writing to share ideas and opinions Example genres: blog post explaining your opinion on a topic, reacting to news, reviewing something you've seen/heard/read/eaten, email/letter to editor, discursive essays 4 Writing to get something done Example genres: request for information, enquiry, reply to enquiry, making bookings, complaints, giving feedback on product/service, 5 Writing expressively Example genres: fictional stories, personal experiences, poems, character profiles 6 Writing for academic contexts Example genres: essays, reports, description of data in graphs/charts, paraphrase, summary, references 7 Writing for business Example genres: reports, proposals, summaries, presentation slides 8 Teacher Development Background reading for discussion, suggestions for action research, approaches to giving students feedback, suggestions for standardizing the assessment of student writing.
Summary
Teaching and Developing Writing Skills provides practical, research-based activities to help you support your learners to communicate effectively in writing.
Foreword
This book is for anyone who wants to support their learners, at whatever level, to develop their writing skills.
