Developing Writing Skills Book 2

Developing Writing Skills assists students to develop a broad range of writing skills with a particular focus on less abstract and more personally oriented texts.
Each student book has information and explanations to assist students with essential rules, definitions, processes and concepts, and an extensive range of exercises.

Contents

- What you need to use this workbook
- What is in the workbook
Unit 1 Elements of language
The writing process
What is grammar?
Identifying components of texts
Identifying components of sentences
Clauses
Verb groups
Noun groups
Circumstance

Unit 2 Working as a fiction writer
Creating mood
Painting pictures through noun groups
Painting pictures through the clause
Painting pictures through comparisons
Painting pictures through language patterns
Weaving descriptions into a story
Analysing descriptions
Writing a description
Describing landscape
Analysing landscape descriptions
Writing a landscape description
Describing characters
Analysing character descriptions
Writing a description of a character

Unit 3 Exploring experience through narratives
Narratives in English
The components of narratives
The structure of narratives
Taking your readers into the world of the story
Things go wrong
Making your readers care
Restoring order
Playing around with structure
The imaginary and the real
Characters in action
Heroes and antiheroes
Writing a narrative

Unit 4 Working as a factual writer
Comparing spoken and written language
Turning actions into things
Writing paragraphs
Building information into paragraphs
Passive voice
Holding paragraphs together
Things to avoid in formal writing
Expressing opinions in formal writing
Using other people’s ideas

Unit 5 Responses to literature and art
Interpretations
Interpreting works of art
The structure of interpretations
Analysing interpretations
Writing an interpretation
Critical responses
Critical responses to works of art
The structure of critical responses
Writing critical responses

Unit 6 Texts to organise and explain
Reports
Descriptive reports
Analysing a descriptive report
Taxonomic reports
Analysing a taxonomic report
Writing a report
Explanations
Sequence explanations
Analysing a sequence explanation
Writing a sequence explanation
The language of reasons and consequences
Consequence explanations about reasons
Consequence explanations about consequences

Unit 7 Texts to persuade
Historical accounts
The purpose and structure of historical accounts
Writing a historical account
Arguing a point of view
Expositions
Discussions
Challenges
Identifying a point of view
The language of argument
Writing a persuasive text
Editing and proofreading checklist

ISBN 9781876580681
Subject English
Year Level Year 9, Year 10
Author: Helen de Silva Joyce and Susan Feez,
Publisher: Phoenix