English Writing A Practical Guide

English Writing - A Practical Guide draws on the author s rich experience as a teacher, teacher trainer, principal, and consultant. The book seeks to engage students to write different types of compositions and improve their general language proficiency through writing. The book addresses the sequence of developing writing skills, and what Process-oriented writing instruction and process-cum-genre based writing is. It includes parallel writing (controlled writing), guided writing, picture and personal descriptions, journal writing, different types of paragraph writing, essay writing, and situational writing, writing answers to questions, correcting and responding to student writing, and grammar for writing for different types of compositions. The book will motivate teachers to guide students in English writing in a systematic manner and build confidence in them to write on different topics independently.