Stage 3 guidelines for writing: Interactional skills

Here are some interactional skills objectives for Stage 3 for writing:

To express interactions between members of the culture accurately.

• To express your intentions or feelings in writing so they will be understood by your readers
• To respond to the intentions or feelings of others as spoken or written to you

Here are some interactional skills strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for writing:

• Analysis

  Find examples of interaction in your Text Portfolio file, and study them to find rules of etiquette and other clues concerning acceptable ways of interaction.

• Ask for correction

  Apply the principles you discovered to your writing. You may need to work through several drafts of a written document before you feel it is ready. It might be good to have it checked by a language associate (LA) or other local friend for comments and suggestions.

• Monitoring

  Pay attention to your grammatical constructions and vocabulary choices.

Here are some interactional skills techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for writing:

The Text Portfolio technique

• The Write and Rewrite technique

Here is an interactional skills activity for Stage 3 guidelines for writing:

When you write anything in everyday life, if you are unsure whether what you wrote might be offensive in some way, ask a mother-tongue speaker to check it for you.

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