ED1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Topic Sentence
ED1111 – Lecture 3
Guided Writing
Guided writing is taught to small groups in briskly paced, 20 minute lessons.
Engage students in a brief, shared experience
- a rich conversation, expanding their linguistic ability
- explicitly rehearse the ways in which they may decide to write about this experience
Teach one or two specific strategies for writing
- Teach strategies for all levels of writing decisions (e.g., composing, text and sentence
structures, spelling, and punctuation)
- Examples or cue cards of strategies to support students' immediate use.
Provide students with time (5-10 minutes) to write at the small-group table but individually and
as independently as possible
- Provide individual guidance and feed forward
- Assist individual students in anticipation of needed reminders or assistance
- Monitor students while they write
- "Lean in" in order to prompt and guide their thinking.
Include a brief sharing activity in which each writer's immediate work is shared with an
audience
- This sharing will allow each writer to experience his/her newly written text as a whole
Parts of Speech – Conjunctions
What are conjunctions used for?
- The primary aim of academic writing is to convey your ideas to someone else in a clear, concise
and effective manner
- For this reason, grammar and punctuation are critical
- Conjunctions link words, phrases and clauses
- Conjunctions are key in academic writing as they add structure and flow
- Conjunctions can also help to demonstrare your critical thinkning and show the logic behind your
argument by illustrating relationships between ideas
- They also work to guide your reader through your argument by signalling the links and
connections you want to make
Coordinating Conjunctions
1. Coordinating conjunctions are used to join equal sentence elements together
2. For example, to join words to words, phrases to phrases, and clauses to clauses
3. Examples are, ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’, ‘nor’, ’so’, or ‘yet’
4. For example, ‘Focus groups found a strong reaction among men but indifference among women
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