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Students will be able to:
 3dentify types of
writing.

 Discuss writing
mechanics.

 Discuss how to improve

their writing skills.
Source: Making The Grade in BGCSE English
Language: Heinemann
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of the BGCSE English

Language examination and it accounts
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for of your overall marks. The skill
blah, of writing continuously in prose(ordinary
blah, written or spoken language that is not in
blahµ. 3t·s the form of poetry).
time now º Ñ
offers a range of topics and
for you are required to write    
serious words. You will not be penalized if you
writing. write more or less. However, you should
stay within the range.
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, you are presented with a
number of topics and asked to
express yourself on
 of them
writing continuously. You are offered
topics that reflect a variety of
types(modes) of writing. There are
un away
from boring
always two pictorials and a poetry
essays. extract.
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: Stay personal opinion
with the º ë
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word giving information.
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: describing something, a
place, or a person
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: writing based on personal
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º Examiners assess your continuous

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without criteria:
expression
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to say clear, logical, relevant to the
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mature, appropriate and
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building a   : 3s the content structured in
house, no
one puts such a way that the reader can
the roof on follow your story, description,
first and
then cuts statement, etc? 3s there a beginning,
the middle and end? Have you written
foundation
afterwards. in paragraphs? Are there links
..At least no between paragraphs?
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your writing reflect a sense of audience-
Do not
include the ability to suit the style you use for the
explicit purposes and the audience? That is, are
sexual
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the tone and language suitable for your
and brutal audience? Have you used a range of
or violent expressions and wide, sensitive and
acts.
appropriate vocabulary? Have you used a
Do not use variety of sentence constructions- simple,
profanities.
compound and complex?
  
  
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spelling
and
Are your grammatical structures
shoddy correct? 3s your sentence
sentence
structure
structure correct? Are your
takes the spelling and punctuation
flavor and
flair out of
accurate?
continuous
writing.µ
 
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º The examiners seek to credit a


´eading achievement. Therefore it is not the practice of
often BGCSE English Language examiners to deduct
from the available total for an essay ( marks)
leads to by counting omissions or inaccuracies. 3nstead,
developing examiners mark Continuous àriting as a whole
better piece of writing. Examiners look for examples
writing that are interesting, sensitive and thoughtful.
They first read the whole piece, judging its
styles overall quality and whether that is sustained.
and This allows examiners to get a feel for whether
skills.µ the script is high, average or low in quality.
They look for errors to see if this affects their
overall impression of your work.
 
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º The following are considered to be serious errors:
 errors of agreement and number
 serious tense errors
 wrong verb form
 elementary errors of sentence construction
 misuse or confusion of simple words
 misspelling of elementary vocabulary
 long, confusing sentences
 ridiculous idioms
 confusion of key parts of speech
   

 

º 3t does not matter which of the five modes you choose to write
on, you need to prepare. You are given 
 






before you to write your essay. Make
good use of your time. ead through all the topics carefully,
and make a wise choice.
º 3n selecting your topic:
 Jot down your first thoughts in brief note form
 ead over your notes and add and reorganize them in some
kind of order.
 Make an outline in the form of paragraphs, i.e. list the main
details in the order of paragraphs.
 Have enough ideas about the topic to be able to write  
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words.
3t is time to recap(-itulate)!
º so what did you learn?