PART OF SPEECH

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC WRITING
UEW2044
CHAPTER 4: MECHANICS OF WRITING
Prepared by :
Sundary N Rajagopal

, LEARNING OUTCOMES




At the end of this chapter, students will be able to:

• Identify the mechanics of writing
• Apply and use the mechanics of writing in paragraphs and
essays.
• Distinguish and differentiate between the 2 types of clauses –
independent and dependent clauses.
• Write sentences using the 2 types of clauses correctly.
• Identify the parts of a sentence.
• Identify and recognize sentence patterns.
• Write sentences based on the different sentence patterns

,TOPIC OUTLINE


INTRODUCTION

3.1 Mechanics of Writing
3.1.1 Components of the Written Texts

3.2 Clauses
3.2.1 Independent Clauses
3.2.2 Dependent Clauses

3.3 Sentences
3.3.1 Sentence Patterns
3.3.2 Question Patterns
3.3.3 Types of Sentences

, INTRODUCTION




Effective writing
demands one to look into
the mechanics of
writing.