WRITING

Page history last edited by English Teacher 1 week, 5 days ago

TIPS TO WRITE IN ENGLISH

(Consejos para escribir en inglés)

BEFORE WRITING: you must brainstorm ideas for your essay and then select the best ones.

Write paragraphs with clear ideas. These paragraphs must be easy to understand and completely developed. Keep your sentences short and well-punctuated, not long and complex. Omit unnecessary words.

Place the main idea in the first sentence of each paragraph. Develop this main idea with with supporting material.

Give coherence to your writing by maintaining a consistent point of view. Unnecessary, sudden and illogical shifts in subject, person, number, tense, voice and mood, affect sentence and paragraph relationships, thus obscuring meaning. Make the verb agree with the subject.

Use transitional words to lead the reader to the content of a paragraph. For example, if you include moreover, you indicate that you will offer additional supporting evidence for your viewpoint.

To indicate ADDITION: and, also, besides, again, equally important, first, in the second place, secondly, furthermore, in addition, moreover, finally...
To indicate COMPARISON: in the same way, likewise, similarly…
To indicate CONCESSION: although this way, at the same time, after all, certainly, doubtless, surely, I admit…
To indicate CONDITION: if, as if, as though, even if …
To indicate CONSEQUENCES or RESULT: and so, after all, at last, as a result, as a consequence, consequently, finally, in conclusion, so, therefore, thus…
To indicate CONTRAST: although true, but, yet for all that, however, nevertheless, on the one hand, on the other hand, whereas…
To indicate EXAMPLES: especially, for example, for instance, in general, in particular, in this way, namely…
To indicate OPINION: I believe that, I think that, in my opinion…
To indicate REASON: because, since, for…
To indicate REPETITION:and so again, as has been said, in other words, to repeat…
To indicate REPHRASING: in other words, that is to say…
To indicate SEQUENCE: firstly, to begin with, secondly, next ,after that, finally, in the end, at last...
To indicate SUMMARY: in brief, in short, to sum up, to summarize, in conclusion, to conclude…

Biography. Key language: sequence linking words to put the ideas in chronological order, adjectives, relative clauses…

Description: Key language: adjectives, adverbs of degree, relative clauses…

Dialogue. Key language: short questions and answers, expressions to show reactions (Really?...)

For and against essay. Key language: linking words and phrases to indicate consequence, addition and example, contrast, modal verbs for hypothesis, second conditionals…