1. Understanding and Producing Written English I Last Lecture

2. Finding the Teacher Within  Developing a self-reflective mind  Calming your ego  Cultivating confidence  Maintaining diligence

3. Making a connection to English  Find a way to associate reading and writing with things you already do or already are interested in.  Touching English every day

4. Know thyself!  Reflecting on difficulties Think Think Write Write Edit Edit  Gathering evidence of weaknesses Error analysis Error analysis Reflecting on feedback from teachers and peers Reflecting on feedback from teachers and peers

5. Making a Plan  Needs Analysis  Plan of action  Justification

6. Needs Analysis  What are my difficulties? (internal)  What are my behaviors? (external)  How can I change them? Reflection Reflection Repetition Repetition Information Information Analysis Analysis

7. What kind of learner am I?  Left brain or right brain?  Associations Visual, textual, auditory, tactile, conceptual? Visual, textual, auditory, tactile, conceptual?

8. Making a plan  Useful and realistic  Something for your reading  Something for your writing

9. Something for your Reading  Reading magazines, novels and other books  Re-reading things that you have read before  Intensive reading  Analytical reading  Extensive reading

10. Something for your Writing  Freewriting and diary keeping  Structured writing  Letter/email writing  Analytical writing  Silly writing  Song writing  Re-writing

11. Justification  Why have you chosen these activities based on your needs analysis?  What outcomes do you expect

12. Format  One page  Combination of point form and paragraph  Write ‘Justification’ as a paragraph!  (to practice your paragraph writing!)

13. Walk the Talk  Understanding what?  Producing what?  Understanding yourself  Producing growth  Having confidence  Recognizing where you need to improve  Association  Having fun!

14. The Main Points

15. The product comes from the process

16. Think Write Edit

17. Abstract vs. Concrete

18. Specific vs. General

19. Don’t Be Boring

20. Write about what you know Know about what you write

21. Prove It!

22. Grammar and Accuracy

23. Kiss

24. Bye bye