Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Handout 3
Mark as True or False

1. 
   Organization is as skleton of the writing
   
2. 
   Voice is not reader-writer connection
   
3. 
   When a paper is weak in conventions, it looks polished and edited.
   
4. 
   Ideas reflect the purpose, the theme, the primary content, the main point
   
5. 
   Careful writers seldom settle for the first word that comes to mind.
   
6. 
   Many students say organisation is also one of the hardest traits to master.
   

Literature
1.R. Tanner & C. Green. Tasks for Teacher Education.
2. Jeremy Harmer. How to teach English.


MODULE1. TEACHING AND INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SKILLS
LESSON 19
Theme: Introducing purposes in writing


Handout 1. The Three Purposes of Writing.
Purpose is so influential that we tend to categorise writing accordingly. It is important to note that although we identify main styles of writing as if they can be 'pure', mostly we combine several elements in a text. We may wish to inform, explain and persuade; or to draw on personal experience to create an imaginative narrative text; or to create an imaginary exchange of dialogue to argue a particular point of view and so on.
Whatever we write, we clarify our main reasons for writing. While we will often have more than one purpose in writing, we will also find that there is an over-riding or primary purpose behind the letter, story, essay, piece of dialogue or poem that we are writing. The primary reasons for writing can be identified in the following:

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  to inform; to instruct; to explain how to do something; to analyse;
  
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  to persuade; to question or challenge a viewpoint, idea or commonly held belief;
  
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  to recount a personal experience; to share your feelings on a personal experience common to many; to relate an unusual private experience; to gain sympathy and understanding for your plight;
  
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  to entertain; to amuse; to delight with imagination and artistic grace; to present serious ideas in imaginative form.