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The Proccss Approach

-    stresses of process of writing itself not the product

-    writers think how to begin and organize the task, not abont the audience and purpose

Stages in process writing:

-    generating ideas (by brainstorming, using visuals etc.)

-    focusing - deciding what you want to say (teclmiques: loop writing - getting students to write a paragraph and a

sentence which sununarizes the paragraph, the sentence becomes the lst sentence of the next paragraph)

-    structuring - ordering information

-    drafting - ways of beginning and ending different stories

-    evaluating - establishing criteria

-    re-ylewing

-    the outeome is wholly predictable (result)

-    at tliis stage writing is supposed to help students to learn by writing new words and structures which is hopeful in focusing on the materiał that is being leamt

Giiided writing

-    freer type of writing activity in which students go beyond basie skills of sentence and produce paragraplis. To

enhance the process, teacher can guide the writing through giving sliort model text of doing "orał preparation for the writing"

Parallel writing

-    students are requested to make changes in given passages or write in accordance with the suggested outline, tliey produce their own writing in a similar manner

Free writing

-    equivalent of free conversation among the writing skills

-    can take form of deseriptive, narrative, persuasive or argumentative passage, a letter etc.

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