Encourage them to use the words and structures they are familiar with. The writing process at this stage serves as a warm-up exercise. Let the students work on something they can easily handle as a way to help them experience some competence in freely expressing themselves. For the revision part, leave the common errors for the students to correct themselves by giving indicative symbols or abbreviations, and revise those awkward expressions. Respond to the content and write encouraging remarks whenever possible.
Many grammatical constructions are important for writing good English.
The principle of this stage, however, is to let the students first get familiar with a few basic essential tools that can enhance their sentence clarity in technical writing. Other relevant constructions can be reviewed if time is available. A. Use of Subordinate Clauses Technical writing involves a lot of analytical writing. Subordinate clauses are powerful tools for analyzing the logical relationships among ideas such as a chronological development, a cause-effect relationship, a purpose relationship and a condition relationship. Students can get familiar with this kind of construction by the following steps.