This is a traditional approach, in which students are encouraged to mimic a model text, which is usually presented and analysed at an early stage.
A software or a device that allows users to create, edit, and print documents.
Synchronous Technologies
The process approach to writing (process-oriented writing)
Wiki
Word Processor
Scaffolding
Tools such as email or forum spaces provide more thinking time, allowing learners to rehearse language use before committing to share their ideas.
Web 2.0 Developments
The Writer's Long Term Memory
A writing instruction approach which views written expression studies not as a product but as a process, and on basis of students’ written expression products, it reveals what students think in writing process, what they do, what characteristics writing process do have
Ways of building community, sharing content such as podcasts and vodcasts via Youtube; negotiating content collaboratively through wikis; creating networks of shared knowledge through tagging etc.
Asynchronous Technologies
A process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support as needed.
Any tool that is in real-time, such as instant messaging that allows students and teachers to ask and answer questions immediately.
This includes a person's knowledge of topic, knowledge of audience and stored writing plans.
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
The Product Approach (product-oriented) Writing
