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Properties of A Well-Written Text

The document discusses the importance of organization in writing. It explains that written texts should be well-organized, coherent, and cohesive using proper language and mechanics. The lesson will teach students how to determine the beginning, middle, and end of a story and write about their life experiences using graphic organizers to improve their writing organization skills.

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Properties of A Well-Written Text

The document discusses the importance of organization in writing. It explains that written texts should be well-organized, coherent, and cohesive using proper language and mechanics. The lesson will teach students how to determine the beginning, middle, and end of a story and write about their life experiences using graphic organizers to improve their writing organization skills.

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Properties of a

Well-Written
Text
Lesson 1: Organization
Arranging our thoughts to deliver a
purposeful message is essential in all
forms of communication. This is
clearly evident among written texts,
which are supposed to be well-
organized, coherent and cohesive,
using proper language and
mechanically neat.
Lesson 1: Organization
In this lesson, we will focus on the
essence of organization. Thus, later,
you are expected to determine the
beginning, middle, and end of a
story, and to write the episodes of
your life from childhood to young
adulthood using a graphic
organizer.
What I Need to Know
• Writing, like speaking, is a form of expressing
and communicating one’s thoughts and ideas.
When you speak clearly, other people can
understand what you are saying. Likewise,
when you write, you have to familiarize
yourself with the properties of a well-written
text: organization, coherence and cohesion,
language use, and mechanics. These will serve
as your “compass” in weaving your train of
thoughts and connecting one idea to another.
What I Need to Know
• This lesson will help you identify and utilize
your writing prowess through your awareness
and application of the properties of a written
text. Here, you can also better appreciate
good grammar as fundamental to written
communication. More so, using it on a
personal basis can help you express ideas
precisely and gain other people’s respect in
whatever you have to say.
The lesson is divided into four lessons, namely:

Lesson 1 – Organization
Lesson 2 – Coherence and Cohesion
Lesson 3 – Language Use
Lesson 4 – Mechanics
After going through this lesson, you
are expected to:
1. determine the beginning, middle, and end of
the story read;
2. write the episodes of your life from childhood
to young adulthood using a
graphic organizer;
3. organize ideas using proper transitional
devices;
4. construct a coherent and cohesive paragraph;
5. determine the essence of proper language
use in written texts;
6. evaluate a written text based on the
appropriateness of language use;
7. utilize writing prowess through practice skills
in grammar; and
8. use proper mechanics in writing such as
spelling, punctuation, capitalization,
and paragraph development.
What’s New

Are you familiar with Star Cinema’s


“Seven Sundays”? This local movie
features famous celebrities like Aga
Muhlach, Dingdong Dantes, Cristine
Reyes, Enrique Gil, and Ronaldo Valdez.
Inside the succeeding text boxes are three
different situations from the movie. Read
and analyze each event to determine
which comes first, next and last.
How do you think are the
scenes arranged in the
movie?
Complete the following:

Event # ___ is the beginning because


___________________________________.

Event # ___ is the middle because


___________________________________.

Event # ___ is the ending because


___________________________________.
What is It

A well-organized piece of writing is


not only clear but also logical and
aesthetic. Existence of
organizational markers and
coherent flow of ideas are
typically the focus in evaluation of
writing (Dayagbil 2016, 63-64).
In writing a story or an essay, it is
necessary for students like you to
identify the sequence of events
from the beginning to the end
because a strong organization
comprises proper paragraphing
and logical order of presentation
of ideas.
You are introduced to this
lesson by sequencing events to
help you understand how to
organize your understanding
of the text or story, then later,
to apply it in your own
composition.
What I Can Do
Using a graphic organizer, write an episode of your
life by providing events beginning from childhood to
young adulthood. Provide a catchy title for your
story.
Title: ____________________________
DATE EVENT
Additional Activities
• Write a three-to-five paragraph essay about the episodes of
your life, using the events that you recorded on the table
beginning from childhood to young adulthood. Be guided by
the following criteria.
Lesson 2: Coherence and Cohesion
One of the most important elements in
writing is the form or structure. Without
a solid structure in place, the content
you have gathered would fall apart. After
sequencing the events in your paragraph
– a group of related sentences that leads
to a single topic or idea, it is time to get
on to unifying your writing.
In this lesson, we will focus on
structuring an effective paragraph
through coherence and cohesion.
Thus, you are later expected to
organize ideas using proper
transitional devices and eventually
construct a coherent and cohesive
paragraph.
What’s New
Set A. Number the sentences to form a well-structured paragraph.
_____A. I knew that we will go to their house to celebrate her
birthday but during that time, I was still in our school because of
my training for campus journalism.
_____B. I talked to her and said sorry for what I had done and I
explained my reasons for not attending her birthday. At last, I
was still thankful to her for understanding my situation.
_____C. It was 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon when Angelita called
me over the phone and said that she was waiting for me at 7/11
store together with our other friends.
_____D. It's hard for me to choose what should I prioritize but I
ended up staying in school.
_____E. On the next day, I saw her inside our room and it seemed
that she did not want to look at me.
Set B. Combine the sentences in each set into
two clear sentences. Add a transitional word
or phrase to the second to show how it
relates to the first. Here is an example.

• Retirement should be the reward for a


lifetime of work.
• It is widely viewed as a sort of punishment.
• It is a punishment for growing old.
Sample combination:

Retirement should be the


reward for a lifetime of work.
Instead, it is widely viewed as
a sort of punishment for
growing old.
Now, it’s your turn!
• There are differences in English performance
between boys and girls.
• These differences cannot be attributed simply
to differences in innate ability.
• If one were to ask the children themselves,
they would probably disagree.
What is It
In arranging the sentences in the first
activity, we consider coherence or the
connection of the succeeding
sentences to the topic sentence.
Meanwhile, in the second activity, we
make use of cohesive or transitional
devices to link the first sentence to the
second.
Coherence and cohesion are two basic
features that facilitate textual continuity.
Basically, coherence refers to the
rhetorical aspects of your writing, which
include developing and supporting your
argument (e.g. thesis statement
development), synthesizing and
integrating readings, organizing and
clarifying ideas.
Coherence means the
connection and
organization of ideas in a
text to create unity.
To achieve coherence, every good
paragraph must have UNITY or oneness
of idea. Sentences in a paragraph are
unified and directed by a topic sentence.
On the other hand, cohesion in writing
means unifying ideas by binding words,
phrases, sentences and paragraphs, thus,
show relationships and smooth “text
flow”.
While coherence focuses on
the overall (macro) structure
of the essay, cohesion is
more specific. It pays attention
to links between words and
sentences.
To achieve good cohesion, you need to
know how to use cohesive devices,
certain words or phrases that serve the
purpose of connecting two statements,
usually by referring back to what you
have previously written or said Here is a
chart of the transitional devices (also
called conjunctive adverbs or adverbial
conjunctions) accompanied with a
simplified definition of function.
For items 1-3, combine each pair of sentences by changing one
sentence to a subordinate clause. Use an appropriate
subordinating conjunction to link the ideas.
Sample: I got tired. It was so late.
Answer: I got tired because it was so late.

1. I was studying my lesson. I heard a loud crash in the next room.


2. I pulled the blankets on my bed. I was afraid.
3. I finally got up from where I was sitting. I heard the cat’s meow.

For items 4-5, continue the story by completing the sentences.


4. I went to get a broom so that
_________________________________.
5. I did not get very much sleep that night because
__________________.

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