WHAT MAKES A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING

Ideas for improving your English compositions.

Items to grade compositions

Good grammar and spelling. Good organization of information in paragraphs.

Varied, rich vocabulary. Maturity and originality in ideas. Comprehensibility. To follow the instructions, if there were any.

Dictionary use Try to see a word in its context. Don’t

translate word by word. http://www.wordreference.com/es/ http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Good for

idioms. DON’T EVER USE E-TRANSLATORS. The result

is incomprehensible, you don’t learn anything and I won’t bother to correct them.

Intolerable mistakes for the writing: Wrong Plural / singular differentiation in the

verb tenses: School violence take place in the classroom.

Plural in adjectives: This has horribles consequences.

Demonstratives: This situations make many people unhappy.

Indefinite determiners in the plural: I brought a books.

There is/ are: There is some people who think. Subject omission: In the evening get my

clothes and dress up. Some irregular verbs: yesterday I gone to my

grandma’s house.

Score markers for compositions

What should I do when I have my composition graded? Should I only look at the mark? What do the signs mean?

My holidays were very fantastic

Their names are Javi, Fran and Susan. If we don’t going to the beach And always see that remember because my father

and brother emcampment ?the

In ^ first place Should I repeat the composition incorporating

all the corrected mistakes?

were

Your first compostion Tell about what you have done this summer

and what your expectations are for this year.

Have you had a good summer? Where have you been to? Have you met any new people? Have you had to study? Has this been the most interesting summer in

your life? Why (not)? What expectations do you have for this year?