This week was very interesting and educational. during this week on the 5th of October, we had group presentations where groups presented creatively on how the writing traits and writing process are connected. Our lecturer had always encourage us to be creative whenever we had to do presentation and this week was no different. Each group came up with some creative charts to relay their information, which kept the class very interesting.
The presentations were all great and well executed and we are proud of what our individual group did. This taught us that we can use different creative ways in enhancing our students writing skills so that when our students leave the classroom, they are capable of writing excellent pieces.
During this week, we also learnt about elements of genre which is basically to supply data. In this genre, expertise opinion is vital, objective and researched and cited material is relevant. We also learnt about the different forms of expository writing which includes sequence, comparison,contrast, cause and effect and classification. During this class we were also taught how to teach expository writing to our students by using the two writing strategies (POW and TREE).
This week made us aware that when we are teaching expository writing to students we must make them aware that they have to take into consideration the audience and their purpose so that their content and tone will be suitable and as novice teachers we should teach our students that plagiarism is not acceptable and that they should never be subjective because their opinion is not necessary for expository writing.
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