WRITING

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe”.

                                                                                                                            Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a medium of human communication, that represents language through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols. We also know that writing is considered a productive skill, because the main purpose is to produce language in a written way. 

In other words, writing involves communicating a message by making signs that could be understandable by others. There are two main things that we should consider when we write something, accuracy and communicating. 

Accuracy refers to the correct use of  language for example correct spelling, writing legible and using the proper  punctuation, another  fact we should consider  is  cohesion, this is a crucial point on the writing moment because it helps to make the sentences logical and easy to understand, this may help to provide the right message to the reader.

There are some steps that may help us to have a good final writing, this are called the stages of writing or writing process, they may contribute to have a good result: drafting, editing, proofreading and re-drafting, are in charge of making the writing process better.

We as future teachers, must use the steps I mentioned above in order to make our students writing process easy to understand.

Personally this is the most difficult skill, and we must be very carefully on how we transmit the message to our students.

The video you would watch next, may give us some steps on how to  teach writing to our students, in a good way.

Bibliography

• The Quotations Page (The Quotations Page)

http://www.quotationspage.com/ 

• The TKT teaching Knowledge Test Course (Mary Spratt, 2011)

• Steps in the Writing Process Video Tutorial (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxq21zTGKJQ