Writing

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Teachers, trainee teachers, and teacher trainers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The summary below aims to give a general idea of thebook's organization
• The author and series editor
• Foreword
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• 1 Composing (18 activities)
• The tasks present a range of techniques for encouraging good pre-writinganddrafting strategies in the process of composition
• 2 Communicating (14 activities)
• The tasks demonstrate ways in which the teacher can create contextsfor classroomwriting and provide a range of readers
• 3 Crafting (21 activities)
• The tasks suggest ways in which teachers can help learners todevelop paragraphscoherently, to use cohesive devices, to usea range of sentence structures, andto develop a range of appropriate! vocabulary
• 4 Improving (8 activities)
• The tasks encourage students to become involved in redraftingand editing theirwork
• This section also investigates possiblemarking strategies for teachers andthe development of markingpolicies within institutions
• 5 Evaluating
• This section considers criteria which teachers might apply inselecting ordesigning appropriate writing tasks and materialsfor their own learners
• Bibliography
• Further reading