Developing Writing Skills

Yerevan: Lingua, Yerevan V. Brusov State Linguistic University, 2004. — 104 p.This textbook for the development of writing skills consists of 7 units and is focused on:
— the sentence structure (subordination and coordination, variety in sentences, completeness, comparisons, position of modifiers, how to avoid misplaced modifiers, parallelism),
— the paragraph,
— elements of good writing: SPA (subject, purpose, and audience),
— the writing process,
— analyzing, evaluating and writing topic sentences,
— analyzing paragraphs for support,
— drafting essays (the introduction, the body and the conclusion).
Supplementary materials include additional resources on paragraphing, identifying topic sentences, description of people’s appearance, and non-verbal communication, or “body language”.