Week 10 Reflect

 

Week 10

 

Makiba Ward:

Having a clear understanding of the different types of writing techniques and the specific purpose each one serves is a critical component of communication skills in the classroom environment. One of the best ways to develop writing skills is to learn how to choose the most effective technique to get a message across. A writing technique is a style an author uses to convey their message in a manner that is effective and meaningful to their audience. Understanding the different types of writing techniques is important to students because they will need to change their style of writing to make a connection with their audience. There are four main different types of writing techniques: Descriptive writing style, Narrative writing style, Persuasive writing style, and Expository writing style. Descriptive writing is often found in fiction, though it can make an appearance in nonfiction as well. When an author writes in a descriptive style, they are painting a picture in words of a person, place, or thing for their audience. The author might employ metaphor or other literary devices in order to describe the author’s impressions via their five senses (what they hear, see, smell, taste, or touch). But the author is not trying to convince the audience of anything or explain the scene – merely describe things as they are. Expository writing is one of the most common types of writing. When an author writes in an expository style, all they are trying to do is explain a concept, imparting information from themselves to a wider audience. Expository writing does not include the author’s opinions but focuses on accepted facts about a topic, including statistics or other evidence. Narrative writing is used in almost every longer piece of writing, whether fiction or nonfiction. When an author writes in a narrative style, they are not just trying to impart information, they are trying to construct and communicate a story, complete with characters, conflict, and settings. Persuasive writing is the main style of writing you will use in academic papers. When an author writes in a persuasive style, they are trying to convince the audience of a position or belief. Persuasive writing contains the author’s opinions and biases, as well as justifications and reasons, which were given by the author as evidence of the correctness of their position. Any “argumentative” essay students write in school should be in the persuasive style of writing. In addition, the first question for any writer should be, “Why am I writing?” “What is my goal or my purpose for writing?” individuals write for different purposes such as: to express;  to describe; to entertain; to inform; to explain; to persuade; to evaluate, and to problem-solve.

In conclusion, writing is an important skill that is used throughout a person’s life for academic, professional, and personal purposes. For a novice writer, there are many things to think about: forming letters on the page, writing left to right in a horizontal line, leaving spaces between words, using letters to represent the sounds in words, capitalizing proper nouns and the beginning of sentences, and placing punctuation inappropriate places. At the same time, like an adult writers, students must also devote attention to generating and organizing ideas, including elements appropriate for the genre, choosing vocabulary to communicate the ideas clearly, and monitoring the quality of the text. However, in order for students to be good writes while using the different writing techniques they should be exposed to the different writing approaches such as: Penmanship Approach, Rules-Based Approach, Rules-Based Approach, Genre Approaches, Strategy Approaches, and Multimodal Writing Approaches.

 

Derika Joseph:

When teaching children how to write, it is important that we also teach them the different ways in which they can write, in order to express themselves. This is to be done so that our children do not get bored with just one type of writing or lose their interest in writing. Thus, some types of Writing we should teach to our children may include, Descriptive Writing, Narrative Writing, Poem/Poetry Writing, Expository Writing, and Argumentative/Persuasive Writing.

In Descriptive Writing, they will be required, just as the name suggests, to describe something (a person, place, animal, or thing) using captivating adjectives and verbs. Whereas, in Narrative Writing, they may tell a story, using their imagination or what they themselves have experienced, to take us on a journey beyond our expectations. While in Poetry Writing, they can entertain us with rhymes or just feeding our souls. Nevertheless, if they choose to do Expository Writing, they can take the time to carefully and clearly explain something of importance to us to bring clarity. And likewise, they can convince us to either do or not do, choose or not choose, etc. something or someone through Persuasive Writing. Additionally, if we expect our children to do what has been mentioned above, we should teach them well many approaches possible, to accomplish such tasks. For example, the Penmanship Approach aims to ensure children form letters correctly so they could produce neat, readable writings. Similarly, the Rule-Base Approach aims to teach children to correctly write words and sentences. As a result, these and many more approaches, have given confidence to children, making it easier for them to practice writing.

Finally, it never hurts to revise strategies to help our children who struggle to write. We should always remind our children that sharing ideas before writing, collaborating to write, using sentence starters, and more, are ok in helping them to improve and become good writers.

 

Shaquan Williams:

When teaching writing, students should be taught about the different types of writing so that they can express themselves effectively using the suited type of writing. Some types of writing include:

• Descriptive writing

• Narrative writing

• Expository writing

• Persuasive writing

 

In persuasive writing, the author takes a stance and tries to convince the audience to have the same stance or belief. Persuasive writing contains a lot of the writer's opinion and biases. An example of this type of writing is usually found in editorial articles in the newspaper. Narrative writing, on the other hand, is a type of writing where the writer relays events and tells the audience a story equipped with characters, setting, and conflict. These are usually seen in short stories and novels.

Whereas, descriptive writing does simply what the name implies. The writer describes something by appealing to the senses of the audience. This type of writing is typically found in fiction but can make appearances in non-fiction writing.  Now to the most common type of writing, Expository writing focuses on explaining using facts and evidence to impart information to the audience. A typical example of this is in textbooks. In addition to these, there is also one other type of writing which is known as poetry writing. This type of writing is usually done to generate feelings in the reader.

Moreover, if we want students to utilize the types of writing then it is vital that we expose them to the different approaches in order for this to happen. The first approach, The penmanship approach is usually done to ensure that students produce legible work with well-formed letters. Another approach is the strategy approach which teaches children to plan, draft, and revise pieces. One planning strategy children may learn is POW. POW allows students to:

P-Pick their ideas

O-Organize their notes

W-Write and say more

Some other approaches include:

• Multimodal

• Genre

• Process writing

• Rules-based