WRITING TIPS
Checklist for Unit 7 — Emergencies

Writing Process

Did you use a pre-writing step to think of ideas to write about?

Did you use time order to organize your ideas?

Did you write more than one draft?

Content and Vocabulary

Do you use a variety of words to describe injuries and emergencies?

Do you include information that answers the following questions about emergencies and accidents: what kind, where did it happen, how did it happen, who was involved, what were the injuries, how are they now?

Do you use participle forms correctly?

Do you use the perfect tenses correctly?

Do you use the passive form correctly?

Do you use reported speech verb forms correctly?

Do you use a variety of sentence structures: simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences?

Is each sentence a complete thought?

Is your paragraph in proper paragraph form?

Do you have one main idea in each paragraph?

Do you use sequence markers to link sentences in the paragraph?

Are sequence markers used correctly?

Does your paragraph have proper narrative form: a beginning, a middle, and an end?