For the teacher, it means marking a pile of compositions and they are almost always worse than expected. For many students, writing is a boring chore and an 'opportunity' to make a lot of mistakes. However, we believe that writing can be a very interesting and involving activity for young learners of English. Here we suggest ways to get your students on track and motivated right from the start.
Writing is a process , from gathering ideas through to checking what has been written.
It is also a product , a text. Writing as a process The writing process consists of the steps we take when we produce a piece of writing. The writing product in 'real life' is a text with a purpose. The purpose may be, for example, to inform, to thank, to request, or to simply entertain. The success of the text depends on the accuracy of the writing and the appropriateness of the content.