WRITING AS A PRODUCT
VS
WRITING AS A PROCESS
HOW DO YOU TEACH COMPOSITION WRITING?
APPROACHES IN
WRITING
APPROACHES
01
OBJECTIVE: production of a piece
- A traditional approach, in which students are encouraged to mimic a model text, which is usually presented and analysed at an early stage
- Follows a linear sequence
- Gives more importance to organization
02
FOCUS: steps in composing a piece
- Tend to focus more on the varied classroom activities which promote the development of language use: brainstorming, group discussion, re-writing
Update 1
WRITING AS...
- text as a resource for comparison
- organisation of ideas more important than ideas themselves
- more global, focus on purpose, theme, text type, i.e., reader is emphasised