Table of Content

1. Writing as a process
2. Describing written text
3. Writing in the language classroom
4. Nuts and bolts
5. Building the writing habit
6. ‘Worked – on’ writing
7. Responding, correcting, and guiding
8. Journal writing

Salient Features

• A description of the processes that people go through when writing
• An analysis of different types of text in terms of genre and register, and of quality of writing in terms of cohension, coherence, and appropriacy
• Activities for the teaching of handwriting, spelling, and punctuation
• Teaching sequences for developing students’ skills and confidence in writing extended texts of many kinds
• Guides to various ways of responding to students’ written work, and to establishing successful journal- writing programmes
• A Task File of photocopiable training tasks
• Appendices of punctuation rules, and of further reading in the theory and teaching of writing