ENG10_Q3_W1 PDF - Writing Techniques

Welcome to ENGLISH WORLD, Grade 10! REGANE B. GAPASIN, LPT Subject Teacher Writing Techniques are the styles authors use to express their thoughts and ideas in a way that is clear, engaging and impactful to his audience. -Understanding the different writing techniques is important bec...

Welcome to ENGLISH WORLD, Grade 10! REGANE B. GAPASIN, LPT Subject Teacher Writing Techniques are the styles authors use to express their thoughts and ideas in a way that is clear, engaging and impactful to his audience. -Understanding the different writing techniques is important because you will need to change your style of writing to make connection with your audience FEATURES OF WRITING TECHIQUES 1. It helps you understand the purpose of the text. ❑The purpose of an advertisement, for example, is to persuade the reader to buy or do something. ❑The purpose of an email to a friend is often to inform. ❑The purpose of a research article is to examine an issue fully, and to argue a particular point with the support of evidence. 2. It helps you locate information you are searching for more easily, because you will be familiar with how different texts are structured. 3. It helps you develop a shared understanding about how to communicate effectively in different situations. This means that you will be able to construct similar texts yourself using appropriate formality and structure. FIVE MODES OF WRITING informative, persuasive, narrative, procedural and descriptive  INFORMATIVE -Explain a concept, imparting information from themselves to a wider audience. Informative writing does not Watching include the news, listening tothe author’s a lecture, or getting opinions, but focuses directions from someone, on to you are listening understand or listening to comprehend the message that is being sent. accepted facts about a topic, including statistics or other evidence. LANGUAGE FEATURES OF INFORMATIVE WRITING ✓Often written using the present tense and in the third person. ✓Sometimes written in the past tense, as in a historical report. ✓Usually Watching theuses news, an impersonal listening to a lecture, ortone gettingand appropriate directions level from someone, oflistening you are formal to vocabulary. understand or listening to comprehend the message that is being sent. ✓Description is generally used for precision rather than to create an emotional response so imagery is not heavily used. Informative paragraph examples: Example1 Most turtles reproduce during the warmest months of the year. The females will come ashore on a sandy beach to lay their eggs after mating. They then leave the eggs to hatch on their own. When they hatch, the hatchings (baby turtles) scramble down into the water. They have to be quick to avoid being eaten by predators. Most bay turtles will perish within their first year. Other examples of informative writing -News stories (but not editorials) -Textbooks -Business, technical, or scientific writing  INTRODUCTION CENTRAL STATEMENT SUPPORTING DETAILS CONCLUDING STATENMENT CONCLUSION REMEMBER! Before writing an informative texts, a writer needs a good research or background of the topic. Some may also include illustrations or graphic organizers for the reader’s to visualize the topic. Here are the parts of an informative essay INTRODUCTION 1. It usually starts with a hook sentence to grab reader’s attention. 2.It also includes the background information of what is the topic all about. 3.Another is the thesis statement telling the readers about what the writer is going to talk about in the next paragraphs. BODY These are the gathered details of your topic written to further explain or deepen the understanding of the readers. It is written in connection to the thesis statement. CONCLUSION It is written best by restating your thesis statements or the main ideas. It also includes your call-to-action tagline for the readers to read and research further about the topic.  INTRODUCTION CENTRAL STATEMENT SUPPORTING DETAILS CONCLUDING STATENMENT CONCLUSION DESCRIPTIVE WRITING Descriptive writing immerses the readers into a story by creating a vivid picture of characters, settings and events in their mind. Writers who use a descriptive writing style often use literary tools like similes and metaphors in their writing. The purpose of the descriptive writing style is to make the reader feel like they are experiencing the events for themselves. Most descriptive writing is not very long. Language Features 1. It has a specific participant. Example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim Language Features 2. Use adjective to clarify the noun. Example: A beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc. Language Features 3. Use simple present tense. The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described. Language Features 4. Use action verbs that show an activity. Example: run, sleep, walk, cut NARRATIVE WRITING A type of writing that tells a story. It is a way of connecting a series of events in order to tell a good story. It show patterns and relate them to one another or to specific ideas or themes It spoken or written accounts of connected events NARRATIVE WRITING It is told in great detail and focuses solely on the practice of telling stories. Purpose: Tell a story (Whole) Example: novels and short stories: characters, plots, settings, and conflict CHARACTERISTICS 1. Descriptive language: Literary Elements and Techniques 2. Characters: Actor: Protagonist and Antagonist 3. Plot: Series of Events Simple: One to two events: Complex or Multi-layered CHARACTERISTICS 4. Narrative Structure: Events: Challenges/Joy a. Beginning: Reader meets writing: Hook Attention b. Middle: Action Happens: Conflict: Failing Action c. End: Wrapping up: Satisfies Readers: Character Life after events  PROCEDURAL WRITING Course or mode of action. Instructions to accomplish goal. EXAMPLES Recipe—How to cook something Directions—How get from one place to another. How-to-guide—How things get done. Rules—How to play something. Safety Procedure—Telling how to stay safe. Craft Instructions—How to craft something. Instructional Manual—How to use a new toy.  FEATURES 1) An introduction- that clearly states the aim of the text to the reader - this could be as simple as one sentence, or could be a whole paragraph with a little bit of backstory; 2) Numbered instructions - this will help the reader to know the order they must follow, and will also help them keep their place if they're carrying out the instructions as they read; 3) Imperative commands, such as "mix the ingredients" or "do this" - these are verbs that specifically tell the reader to do an action at that moment; 4) Second-person language ("next you mix in...") - this reinforces the fact that the reader is expected to carry out the instructions; 5) Time phrases to signpost instructions, such as "first", "next", and "then"; 6) Present tense - as the reader is likely to attempt the steps while they read, or very soon after; 7) Vocabulary specific to the procedure - for example, baking-related terms in a recipe  PERFORMANCE TASK! Group 1 Group 2 (Persuasive): (Informative): Advertisement Poster Mini Dictionary Group 3 Group 4 (Procedural): (Narrative): Cook Book Story Book Group 4 (Descriptive): Blog Feature Criteria  Welcome to ENGLISH WORLD, Grade 10! REGANE B. GAPASIN, LPT Subject Teacher