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GR I T I N S

T E A C H I NW GK I L L S r:
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shoppinglist may h:tvebeenfor this purpose- the readeris someonewho ls
not physicall.v present.This, after all. is why we normally choosethis particular t-
channelof communicationrather than the more common one of speech.And
becauseour readeris not present.and in somecitsesmay not even be known to l-
u s , w e h a v et o !-
ensurethat what we
write can be 4{2.- rA t.
/ T-h.ere{6i€re ninety cases of polio occurri'ig
understoodwithout (rh,/ '--
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any further help L^n"^ e{ v..ti}.tf,r* t-


from us. This is the ^49days@ l-
reasonfor the care
we have to take hfilee'lre*c f+dtb€€tl l-
with writing. It is
by the organisation LE L^ l-
a n o t h e r personnecef hie hei*c'mctc+
of our sentences l-
into a text, into a
coherentwhole ad received the Cutter vaccine, F
which is as explicit
as possibleand
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In seventy-one of these cases *,her
completein itself, F
that we are able (or ;f
hope to be able) to Ci=essc t'hea+ c o n n e c t i o n c o u l d b e s h o w n
A ts
communicate
successfullywith tlrct with particular Iots of the vaccine6
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our reader through E-
the medium of
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writing. F
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1.2 It is helpfulto keepin mind someof the manyuseswe are likely to makeof
What do we writing.For example,on a personallevel,mostof ususewritingto makea note
write? of something (thingswe haveto do or wantothersto do, like our shoppinglist),
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andto keeprecordsof thingswe wantto remember.We sendmessages and
write lettersto friends,anda few of uskeepdiaries.Most of ushaveto fill in E-
formsfrom time to time (especially applications- for example,for insurance
- or questionnaires) andoccasionally we writeformalletters(for example,if --l-
u'echangeour job). Apart from this,the amountof writingwe do regularlywill
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relateto our professional life. Somemightspenda gooddealof time writing
letters,instructions.reports.etc.For othersthiswill onlybe an occasional F
activity.
Few of us,on the otherhand,arelikelyto spendanytimewritingpoetry ,l-
or fiction.And, outsidethe classroom, we neverwrite 'compositions'(My daily t;;
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routine,My favouritepastime,etc.) of the kind that arestill a featureof many
examinationsl Fr

1.3 A comparison betweenspeech andwritingshouldhelpusto understand some !-


Spe e c ha n d of the difficulties
we experience
whenwe write.The tableon the nextpage !-
writing highlightsthe maindifferences.Note,however,thatit doesnot takeinto
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