How to structure writing (for Swedish students)

Hi. My name is Jeanette and I am going to

go through how to in to structure writing.

And we are talking the whole shebang, actually.

So what?

The most important thing is for you to know as

we start this is that there are three different levels

when you write and the first level is planning, which

is a very big step.

When you do not plan your work, you usually have

a problem to get started.

You have a problem with knowing what to write next.

And sometimes you even feel like I don't know where

I'm going with this.

And if you feel like that, we will, as teachers

definitely see it in the text.

This is our occupation.

We can see for miles when you are uncomfortable with

your text.

We can sort this through by planning it.

Now. The second step is actually the smallest step, which

is writing.

This is the step when most students put a lot

of effort and time in your right and rewrite and

rewrite for an hour, an hour and a half during

a test time.

I'm simply asking you to take 10 minutes of your

time to do this part because it's actually the the

part that needs the least time basically.

And then last but not least, we have the absolute

biggest one and that ISS editing, you have to edit

your draft.

You have to edit your text.

Okay, So whenever you feel like I reached the bottom

of my text now I'm gonna push the button and

handed it and just be done with it.

We will see it as teachers.

I don't know if it has ever happened to you

that you have been given a text back from a

teacher. You look at it and you go like, Oh,

my God, that's so sloppy.

Did I do that?

Have I spelled the word like that?

Yeah, you have.

That's because you didn't add it.

You didn't read through it.

You just send it in, and that's all.

So let's go through it.

I'm going to give you a lot of different suggestions,

and I'm gonna base it on the Swedish school system

and the Swedish grade system helping you out and how

to get a good grade.

So we're talking structure, and the first thing we're gonna

go about is landing.

So here we go.

The most important part is planning and why?

Well, because this is where we make the grades.

Good According to school, Valk, it This is just a

small part of a great in school bracket.

It says in swiftly, from standing like candidly of a

formula is a relative for your relative too little relative.

All right, you can read the rest for yourselves.

But as you can see, my point here is that

they have a tendency to focus so much on the

great E on the Great Sea and on the great

eighth with relatively, relatively relatively that it basically gives you

nothing. What does it mean?

What are you gonna do?

Relatively. So keep right.

Focus. Keep the right focus.

What is it that you're going to do if I

read it like this instead?

From standing are cannot live informal, relative relative would relative

someone hanging under once again, this it's a little bit

clearer to you.

I want a clear text.

I want to keep cohesive text.

I want to text with fluency in it and I

want to text that is adapted to the purpose the

recipient in the situation.

We're gonna go through what that means.

So explaining this varied or means don't use the same

expression over and over again.

We're talking vocabulary here, Okay?

Nothing is as irritating as when I see friends and

family, friends and family, friends and family over and over

and over again.

I usually tell my students, Try to write the title

into the text and my suggestion is good, but I'm

trying to say Use other words for it.

So if your text is why we should not legalize

marijuana, then perhaps you need to change the word legalize

a little bit.

You can use other words why it should be lawful

or unlawful, for example, or you can just talk about

it. Why I shouldn't use it like a whole expression

in there doesn't necessarily need to be one word As

long is.

It's not the same expression word over and over again.

Going to come back to this Second one is to

it. We're clear.

What message are you trying to send?

And that message should be clear.

We're talking grammar when we're talking structure.

The third thing is fleet fluency, so this is both

one sentence and its entire text so there are two

different ways of looking at this.

So one thought should be connected to the other.

If we're looking at the entire text, I don't want

to start attacks reading about a topic.

And then at the very end, it's a total different

topic that can't happen.

Or a sentence should be easy to follow, right?

It should be really grammatically correct for me to follow

a sentence, for example, So once again, using structure were

vocabulary in the sense.

And then we have someone hanging the cohesive in English

sentences a message once again, the whole text and the

little sentence should be clear.

Yeah, we're talking grammar and we talking structure.

It's It's a little bit like fluency, if you ask

me, but so they're kind of close together.

But there are some small, small differences last but not

least just to give an example.

You have adapted to purpose recipient and situation.

What were you writing to?

That's very important.

What Jonah, are you writing also extremely important for us?

When we look, we actually create thes things.

Let's say, for example, that you Jonah is a letter.

You are writing a letter who are you writing to?

Are you writing to a professor?

Are you writing to news outlets?

Are you writing to a friend?

Because we know the language will change.

Depending on that, most of you will probably write an

essay. An essay is usually, um, based on the teacher

being the recipient.

So use a nice language.

Try to be polite and you'll do fine, basically.

All right, moving on.

So we are talking about different genres when we're planning,

right? I know this is the only thing about the

video that I can't really cover.

We have lots of lots of different genres were right.

We have a letter or email, which is a more

modern form.

Off email, we have a C B.

We have a five paragraph essay, which is the one

that I will focus on in this video five paragraph

essay where you also based reflecting writing on it you

based discursive essay on the five paragraph essay and argumentative

essay. So if you know the five paragraph essay, it

will be tremendously much more easier to write the rest

of the essay.

John ours.

So to say, that's why I'm focusing on this one

alone. So find paragraph essay is exactly what is this?

Five paragraphs.

Okay, Another paragraph in Swedish is sticking.

You have five of them on introduction.

The first body paragraph, a second body paragraph, a third

body paragraph and a conclusion.

Conclusion in Swedish is All right.

So here we are.

Five paragraph one paragraph should be a minimum off five

rows. Long not sentences, but rose.

Okay. If you write anything less than that, it will

be too thin.

Okay, so you will not get your message across with

anything less than that.

You use either blank space or indent as you write

a blank spaces where you have a well empty line

in between each paragraph.

An indent is when you push the first row in

a little bit, which you should use.

Ask your teacher if your teacher likes the blank space.

Then use that.

If your teacher like student then use that because your

teacher is the one correcting your paper.

So, you know, keeping a keep Keep the thing.

Yes. At the teacher wanted basically Yeah, um, moving on.

How do we plan?

This is your task right now.

You were actually going to plan um you can plan

the title how to be a good role model.

That is a very common topic that we use a

lot in school.

So how to be a good role model?

That is the title given to you by the teacher

and you go like, I don't know.

Sure, you dio.

I'm telling you that you do.

I'm going to use a different title, though, but you

can because I don't want to do your job.

But we're going to do it together.

Do you have a title?

You have an introduction.

You have a 1st, 2nd and body paragraph together.

These are called the main body paragraphs.

Simple enough.

And then you have the conclusion.

Now, as we plan, I need to tell you that

we are not planning the introduction.

So this one is removed.

Why? Because it's, um you can't do it.

How can you start a text without knowing what to

write? Right.

You have to plan the text first, and then when

you plan it, you can introduce the topic.

So introduction is not a part of this.

Nor is conclusion You can't summarize an entire text if

you don't know what the text will be about.

And this, my dear students, is why you usually get

stuck because you don't plan and you start with the

image production without even knowing what to write.

Here is an example of what you can write.

Yeah, my title is How to prevent bullying.

For example.

123 the main body Paragraphs one.

Be someone's friend.

That's what I want to write about to.

Teachers should react harder.

Yeah, that's what I think as well.

Number three.

The government should make stricter loss.

Just write one sentence.

That's it.

123 and 14 sentence.

What is it that you want to say with this

paragraph? These sentences, we are going to transform them.

And they're called thesis statement the most important part off

the entire text.

And you are already done.

So once again, just make one sentences for each paragraph.

What do I want to write about in this paragraph?

Moving on.

What can you write about?

Well, you can write about personal experience.

You can write about someone you know, and here is

a little secret for you.

You can lie as long as you don't do research

or essay with sources in them.

If you just write about your own experience, you can

say that if it happened to a friend, even though

it didn't, This is not what we're grading.

People were grading your language and your writing skills, not

your experience in life.

So yes, you can actually lie sometimes doing us.

You can also write about environment.

If that ISS your hobby and technological solutions government in

human rights, economy, spare time activities.

Ford's famous people, family and friends.

Right, So here we go.

You have a lot of different topics.

If you can learn these ones, you will never lose

focus. If you don't know what to write, you can

think What do I do in my spare time And

then you can write about that.

So if you can learn these themes, then you are

set to go.

So what you do now is that you write your

thesis statement one sentence.

What should this paragraph b about and then you just

write really, really shortly?

What do we want to save after this thesis statement?

Can I use, for example, family and friends or any

personal experience?

Yes. This is how my ended up how to prevent

bullying. Number one be someone's fringe and I will talk

about once when I felt alone and I will talk

about to hang out with my friends.

Okay, Number two teachers.

Should you react harder, I will talk about once when

the teacher didn't DiDio did nothing or I will talk

about that.

Teachers react to differently or two different things.

The government should make stricter loss.

I will talk about a crime for adults, but it's

a slap on the fingers for teenagers.

And I will talk about friends experience that they had

to pay a fine or a really hard crime.

All right, so here is me explaining to myself what

the text will be about.

And that is your assignment to do until the next

video, where we will talk about writing in this whole

How to structure writing (for Swedish students)

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