- •Successful letter writing: formal letters
- •Пояснительная записка
- •Часть 1: как организовать свою письменную деятельность на ая на примере официально-деловых писем;
- •Часть 2: советы по организации иноязычной письменной деятельности;
- •Часть 3: портфолио по письму (на cd-rom-приложении).
- •Contents
- •Part 1. Formal letter writing and your individual writing work Unit 1. How to organize your Individual writing work
- •Student Writing Assessment Checklist
- •2.1. Are you a successful writer?
- •Unit 2. Writing Process Framework
- •2.4. Checklist writing framework
- •2.5. 5 Keys to Better Sentence Flow (by Mark Nichol)
- •Unit 3. How to interpret writing tasks
- •3.2. Writing Prompts (by Simon Kewin)
- •3.3. Examples of Writing Prompts
- •3.5. The Writer`s 5 Ws
- •I keep six honest serving-men
- •Unit 4. Introduction to Letter Writing
- •Types of Letters and Styles in letter writing: a guideline
- •A bbreviations Used in Letter Writing
- •Unit 5. Types of Formal Letters
- •Unit 6. How to write a letter giving information
- •6.2. Project Task
- •Its value to the community
- •Unit 7. How to write a letter of request
- •7.3. Project Task 1.
- •7.4. Project Task 2.
- •Unit 8. How to write a letter of complaint
- •8.4. Project Task
- •8.5. Look at the following writing prompt, do the tasks after it. Follow the instructions that will help you to work on the project. Don’t forget the rules of working on a project.
- •Unit 9. How to write a Letter of Enquiry
- •9.2. Project Task
- •Unit 10. How to write a Letter of Recommendation
- •The assessment of the student’s capabilities
- •10.4. Project task
- •Unit 11. How to write a Letter of application
- •11.8.5. Write a letter applying for a place on the course, stating your reasons for choosing this particular college.
- •Unit 12. How to write Curriculum Vitae and Resume
- •Unit 13. How to write business thank you letters
- •13.2. Read these letters and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your Learner Diary.
- •You and your students visited a big International company for study purposes. You liked the visit.
- •Your former tutor wrote a letter of recommendation for you you got a good job. You are very thankful to him/her.
- •13.3. Project task
- •Unit 14. How to write a letter to authorities/editors
- •14.2. Project Task
- •14.2.1. Look at the following writing prompts, do the tasks after it. Follow the instructions that will help you to work on the project. Don’t forget the rules of working on a project.
- •Unit 15. Study check
- •Unit 16. Assess your language level
- •Section a. How to make yourself write when you don’t feel like it: strategies to minimize distraction
- •10 Ways to Find 10 Minutes to Write (by Ali Hale)
- •Minimize Distractions When Writing: Practical Tips (by Ali Hale)
- •Practice Writing – Regularly:
- •Read Widely
- •Take Time Over Your Writing
- •Learn About Writing
- •Ask For Feedback
- •6. Share Your Work With an Audience
- •Section b. The Writing Process Framework
- •2. Hands Off
- •3. Parts of Speech
- •4. Sentence Structure
- •5. Deemphasize Emphasis
- •6. Tone and Voice
- •Write First, Edit Later: from the first draft to brilliant written paper
- •Section c. How to interpret writing tasks
- •Section d. The Writer`s 5 Ws Self-assessment checklist of the Writer`s 5 Ws
- •References
3.2. Writing Prompts (by Simon Kewin)
What Is A Writing Prompt?
A writing prompt is simply a topic around which you start jotting down ideas. The prompt could be a single word, a short phrase, a complete paragraph or even a picture, with the idea being to give you something to focus upon as you write. You may stick very closely to the original prompt or you may wander off at a tangent.
Reasons for writing to prompts:
Sometimes it’s hard to start writing when faced with a blank page. Focusing on an unrelated prompt for a while helps get the creative juices flowing. If you write for just ten minutes on a prompt, you should then find it easier to return to the piece you intended to write.
The prompt may give you ideas from which a complete story grows or you may get fresh ideas for another piece you are already working on. It’s often surprising how much material you come up with once you start.
Writing to a prompt regularly helps to get you into the habit of writing. This can act as a sort of exercise regime, helping to build up your “muscles” so that you start to find it easier and easier to write for longer and longer.
Prompts can be a great way to get involved in a writing community.
3.3. Examples of Writing Prompts
Task: The following are twenty writing prompts that you could use to spark your imagination. If you want to use one, don’t worry about where the ideas take you or whether what you’ve written is “good”. The point is just to get into the flow of writing. You can come back later and polish if you wish to.
It was the first snowfall of the year.
He hadn’t seen her since the day they left High School.
The city burned, fire lighting up the night sky.
Silk.
She studied her face in the mirror.
The smell of freshly-cut grass.
They came back every year to lay flowers at the spot.
The streets were deserted. Where was everyone? Where had they all gone?
This time her boss had gone too far.
Red eyes.
Stars blazed in the night sky.
He woke to birdsong.
‘Shh! Hear that?’ ‘I didn’t hear anything.’
He’d always hated speaking in public.
She woke, shivering, in the dark of the night.
The garden was overgrown now.
He’d never noticed a door there before.
She’d have to hitch a ride home.
‘I told him not to come back too!’
His feet were already numb. He should have listened.
Where To Find Writing Prompts Online
There are sites dedicated to providing them which a quick search will turn up. Examples include :
CreativeWritingPrompts.com
WritersDigest.com
Creative-Writing-Solutions.com
There are also numerous blogs that offer a regular writing prompt to inspire you and where you can, if you wish, post what you’ve written. Examples include :
SundayScribblings.blogspot.com
OneMinuteWriter.blogspot.com
DragonWritingPrompts.blogspot.com
If you’re on Twitter, there are users you can follow to receive a stream of prompts, for example :
twitter.com/writingprompt
twitter.com/NoTelling
twitter.com/writingink
3.4. Make your own writing prompts for a certain type of writing.