Writing a high scoring exam essay or composition

Writing Competency Development for EFL Learners

Presenter:

Larry M. Lynch, Ed.S., TESOL Universidad Santiago de Cali

E-mail: lynchlarrym@gmail.com

Website: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Larry_M._Lynch Blog: http://bettereflteacher.blogspot.com/

We Need Competent Writing Skills

• Teachers and students BOTH need to develop competent writing skills:

• Education • Employment • Communication • Personal Growth • Advancement

Why Write? Why Read? "You've got to love

libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it."

Ray Bradbury

Writing: A Difficult Gift

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."

Charles Caleb Colton

Writing Competency Development

Writing should have meaning, express thoughts and ideas, not just be “pretty”

WHY PUBLISH?

ORGANIZATION OF THEMATIC POINTS

RECOGNITION

PROFESSIONAL

PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS

SHARE TECHNIQUES

DOCUMENT PROGRESS and

CHANGES

CLASSROOM EXPERIENCES

SHARE KNOWLEDGE

PERSONAL CHALLENGE

TO WRITE

TO RESEARCH

RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS

EXPRESS YOUR IDEAS & OPINIONS

ACADEMICCOMPENSATION

FINANCIAL

THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING

Some Keys to Competent Writing:• Analyze the Topic

Question • Outline the draft • Use an organized

format• Use relevant quotes

and references • Input personal

experience • Answer each part of

the topic question

Writing can be done as a ... PRODUCT:

• Product - based• PPP• TBL Model seen

before

(Fowler, 1988)

PROCESS: • Process – based• TBL model seen after• Students work together• Do it again (improve)• Exchange each other's

work• Content• Communicative

potential (White, 1987)

The Five Paragraph Essay• INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH Gives introductory and thesis statements • FIRST SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH Presents first supporting idea • SECOND SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH Presents second supporting idea• THIRD SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH Presents third supporting idea• CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH Gives closing statement and restates thesis

Five-Paragraph Essay: A Case Study

“The Hazards of Movie-Going” by John Langan

• Structure • Content • Format • Outline

Now, Your Favorite Parts: • PFI Teacher assignment for session 2: Reading and Comprehension Development

• Prepare a reading and comprehension workshop based on a reading from the Red book 1 or Blue book 2 of Interchange. Each teacher must prepare a DIFFERENT reading unit

• Send your work by e-mail to the Instructor at: lynchlarrym@gmail.com

• PFI Teacher assignment for session 3: Writing Competency Development

• Write a referenced, academic essay on a topic to be assigned by the Instructor

• Use an expanded Five-Paragraph Essay format (three pages or 1000 words max.)

• Send in your completed essay by e-mail to the Instructor at:

lynchlarrym@gmail.com • Assignment due dates to be announced • The BEST essays will be published!

Thank you PFI Teachers!

Writing Competency Development for EFL Learners

Presenter:

Larry M. Lynch, Ed.S., TESOL Universidad Santiago de Cali

E-mail: lynchlarrym@gmail.com

Website: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Larry_M._Lynch Blog: http://bettereflteacher.blogspot.com/