Developing writing strategies

Here is the list of other values. Tick which of them are important to you. Underline noun suffixes..

Noun forms can derived from verbs, adjectives and nouns with suffixes

Answer the questions

Read the text once again and point out words and phrases describing values. Fill in the table as in the example.

belonging	Feeling of being loved, having personal freedom and space

1) What does belonging to a family mean?

2) What does flexibility imply?

3) How to gain respect?

4) Why is honesty so important?

5) Is it necessary to forgive people?

6) What is generosity?

7) How to achieve communication?

8) Shall we learn how to be responsible?

Grammar

1. How nouns are formed?

-AL-condition, quality arrive-arrival	-NESSstate, quality, condition happy-happiness	-ARIAN -holders of a particular doctrine – human-humanitarian
-ANCE/ENCE-action,state.condition, quality–attend -attendance	-ITY state or condition – active-activity	-EE –person/instrument – refuge-refugee
-ATION/TION–action or resulting stateeducate - education	-ISM –state, practice – human-humanism	-EER –person, concerned with –engine- enginer
-SION –action or resulting state – decide -decision	-TH –condition – long - length	-IST –person, who practices – terror-terrorist
-URE –action or resulting state – depart-departure	-Y –condition – honest- honesty	-STER –terror -terrorist
-MENT– state, act, condition – agree– agreement	-ERY –location, collective – brave-bravery
-AGE –action, state, process –break -breakage	-TY –condition – safe-safety
-INGaction, state, process – land -landing
-ERYlocation, collective, condition –bake - bakery

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/noun-forms.html

Vocabulary

beauty	friendship	respect
being loved	happiness	security
being responsible	harmony	self-assertion
being self	health	self-confidence
commitment	helping others	self-control
cooperation	honesty	self-preservation
creativity	integrity	self-realization
curiosity	interdependence	solitude
education	justice	status
empathy	making others happy	success
fairness	ownership	wealth
family	personal growth	wholeness
food/warmth/shelter	power/authority	wisdom/intelligence
freedom	prestige	work

2. What is in your top values? Rank the list of values

		Very important	Somewhat Important	Not important

Improve your study skills

Learn how to improve your writing. A few easy tips can already help you. Read our suggestions and, if possible, try to practise the various steps.

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING YOUR WRITING SKILLS

Before you write

· Decide why you want to write and who your audience will be.

· To decide on a topic: brainstorm ideas and organise them as a mind-map. Highlight important keywords. Think of links between the keywords and draw lines etc.

· Decide on a concrete topic and gather your ideas together. Take notes.

· Use a dictionary and look up important vocabulary and phrases.

· If you feel that you do not know enough about your topic, then do some research and read more about it.

· Texts in the foreign language can help you to find useful phrases and words for your topic.

· Collect your ideas and research results and put them together into a possible outline.

While you are writing

· Create a first draft using your collected ideas. It is not important yet that the spelling or grammar make sense.

· Read your ideas. Then check whether those thoughts are what you really want to say.

· If you don’t know how to continue, take a break and put your writing away for a while.

· Return to your writing with fresh eyes. Maybe new ideas come to mind.

· Edit your draft: move, remove or rewrite sections that you feel need correction.

· Continue to write and edit until you feel that the result is your final draft.

· Hand your writing to someone else for proofreading. Maybe they can give you some new ideas.

After writing

· Review the suggestions of improvement given by your proofreader. Edit your draft again.

· Proofread your final draft, check spelling and grammar as well as coherence of the contents.

· Continue to edit until you feel that the result is your final piece.

(From http://www.learning-english-online.net/skills/writing/)

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