TEACHING WRITING
Like speech, writing has been considered a powerful mode of communication. After all,
one writes with the purpose of being understood. Unlike speech, writing is not always for the
audience present and hence it demands clear and comprehensive message. While we speak,
we use a variety of prosodic features such as pitch, loudness, speed, rhythm, pauses and so on
that help us to get the feedback from listeners but this does not happen in case of writing where
the context is created through the words alone and without the direct interaction between the
writer and the reader.
Nowadays, most people do not write much in day-to-day life and in a way, a great deal
of what we write includes brief notes, answers for the questions, diary-entries, letters etc. Now,
let’s try to understand what writing is or what we mean by writing.
What is Writing ?
When we write we use graphic symbols that is letters or combinations of letters which relate to
the sounds we make when we speak.
Do we just use graphic symbols for the sake of using them? I think – “No”. Of course, the
symbols which are used need to be arranged properly to form words and then to form the
sentences with a view to communicating our ideas in an organised way. In fact, when we
communicate through writing, we have so many ideas to express for which we consider different
ways of combining and arranging them which lead us to our drafting, revising or redrafting and
so on.
In other words, it can be said that writing is encoding of a massage of some kind that is,
we translate our thoughts and ideas into language. So, in a way, writing represents our thoughts
and ideas. What one thinks leads to one’s writing in the form of sentences and by organizing the
sentences into a cohesive text where we are able to communicate with our readers
successfully.
So far as the teaching of writing is concerned, the teacher should keep this nature of
writing in mind. Writing always has become difficult to teach or to learn because it involves a
different kind of mental process which includes the sub-skills like – drafting, editing, revising,
organising etc.
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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