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WRITING
LESSON 1
WHAT IS WRITING?
• Transactional Writing
• Creative Writing
TYPES OF WRITING (2)
• Narrative Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Expository Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• Argumentative Writing
WHAT A WRITER NEEDS TO
KNOW
• Subject matter
• Purpose
• Interaction and a sense of audience
• Language
• Conventions
• Thinking skills
• Organisational skills
• Value system
• Mechanics
• Writing process
PLANNING YOUR WRITING
What is planning?
• Whenever you write anything you plan
it first in your head.
• Even when you are writing a text
message, you think about what you
would like to say and how you would
like the message to come across.
• Bulleted list
• Spider diagram/mind map
• Flowchart
Remember: a text
can be any piece of
writing e.g. a letter,
an advert, a report,
an article etc.
Bulleted List
This is where you make a simple list of all
of the points you would like to include in
your piece of writing.
Concepts you
Main Topic
know about it
brainstorming process
Main
Adjective Concept Adjective
1 4
Adjective Adjective
6 5
Contrast Contrast
Compare
Cause 1 Effect 1
Problem
Cause 2 Effect 2
electricity sunlight
as
machine chloroplast