Readings for session 15

How is writing like swimming?

• They are discovered behaviours.

• Good writing feels like swimming underwater.

• They are learned behaviours.

• Students depend on them to survive.

Select all the examples of process approaches.

• Analyze students writing skills.

• Let students discover what they want to say as they write.

• Place central importance on the process of revision.

• Give students time to write and rewrite.

Draw what the Oriental written pattern looks like.

Select all the micro-skills for writing.

• Use cohesive devices in written discourse.

• Develop fluency and accuracy before the writing process.

• Use complexitily in the writing production time.

• Produce graphemes and ortographic patterns of English.

Select all of the prewriting processes.

• Brainstorming

• Freewriting

• Listing

• Creating

What are the characteristics of the writing process?

• Planning

• Revising

• Correcting written work

• Producing

Select all the types of writing.

• Social

• Emotional

• Public

• Creative

Why is it important to provide practice in planning?

• Students will be able to produce their writing skills.

• Students will find their effective writing skills.

• Students will find their own effective planning process.

• Students will accomplish their goal.

What is an unguided technique that can generate ideas?

• List short sentences.

• Brainstorming.

• Editing final draft.

• Read aloud.

What is one implication of a process approach?

• It tries to provide support for students' ortography.

• It tries to provide useful support for student writers.

• It tries to provide support for students' pre-writing stage.

• It tries to provide support for students' revising stage.