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Writing

Covers writing as 'the considered use of language' - valuable both for student practice and for teacher analysis
Teaching Writing aims to cover all areas useful for encouraging writing skills appropriate for English B students. This includes ...
Links: texts for writing ... lists of texts provided elsewhere in the site which will act as models
Developing writing skills ... ways to help students handle the writing process in methodical and effective ways; and...
... teaching techniques to stimulate lively writing

Specific text type skills ... defining each text type in terms of the IB's 'transfer goals', and grouping texts by relative ease and complexity
Text type conventions ... a reference page summarising text type conventions
Detailed coverage of text types is provided in subordinate pages, with models and recent exam tasks
Writing purposes ... adapted from the 'old' Subject Guide, the concept of communicative purposes: models and samples showing how specific writing purposes may be handled

Selected Pages

Writing
Text type expectations Free
To put it another way, how will they be expected to handle each text type in Paper 1: Productive skills - writing? Basically,...
Writing
Specific text type skills Free
By 'specific skills', I wish to define the kind of approach required for each text type, and the kind of language expected....
Writing
Description
A succinct definition of key features to be taught is given in Writing purposesOn this page, below:The essence of writing...
Writing
Writing purposes
.When we write, we set out with a purpose in mind - or rather, purposes, since most texts of any sophistication will contain...
Writing
Argument
A succinct definition of key features to be taught is given in Writing purposesOn this page, below:Most students know how...
Writing
Experimental tasks toolkit
Learning a language necessarily involves acquiring practical skills of communication for common purposes, but it also involves,...

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