PPT WRITING essay for galus students.pdf

how to write an essay

1. SPM PAPER 2 – WRITING
You will have to write 3 essays of different formats

Part 1 (Compulsory task)
Candidates have to write an email to a friend in about 80 words
Part 2 (Compulsory task)
Candidates have to write an essay in about 125 - 150 words
Part 3 (Candidates have a choice of task)
This part has three questions or tasks to choose from. The tasks types may include an
article, a review, a report or a story and candidates have to choose one. They have to
write about 200 - 250 words.

2. In writing tasks, marks are usually awarded using the following
criteria:
1 Content – C (requirements of the questions, task fulfilment)
2 Communicative Achievement – CA (appropriate tone of the writing, elaborations of ideas,
able to hold target reader’s attention)
3 Organisation – O (organising and presenting the ideas logically, paragraphing, a smooth
flow using connectors and cohesive devices appropriately)
4 Language – L (appropriate and varied use of vocabulary and expressions and correct
grammar, varied structures)

3. SHORT COMMUNICATIVE MESSAGE
[E-MAIL]

11. 5 WAYS TO IDENTIFY CONTENT POINT
1.The sentence may have ? symbol
2.The sentence may have or start with Cohesive Devices examples:
Firstly, Furthermore,
3.The sentence may have Modal words
2cmws = 2c = can/could, 2m = may/must, 2w = will/would,
2s = shall/should
4. The sentence may have 1H8W
1H8W = How, Where, When, What, Who, Why, Which, Whose,
Whom
5. The words and/or

12. GUIDED ESSAY
[PART 2]

20. EXTENDED ESSAY
[PART 3]

41. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH