Perspectives in Writing

Writing plays a vital role as it is an effective mode of judging the student performance. It gives an opportunity to students to develop their professional knowledge and experience. Raimes (1991) outlines four approaches to second language writing instruction as-focus on form, focus on the writer, focus on the content and focus on the reader is a purposeful and goal oriented skill. researchers have proposed different views on writing and these views on writings Writing is a dynamic process and it is an act of discovery. The writer grows in his imagination through exposure to his writing. Thinking and composing processes are connected to the student who uses different ideas and thoughts to create; hence, writing and thinking go hand in hand. Different modes of writing is discussed here like: Writing as a mode of thinking, Writing as a Mode of Communication, Writing as a mode of Learning and Writing as a Discourse Cohesion and coherence is important in writing Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical links within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.