The Writing Process EAP Worksheets

In this engaging writing process activity, students participate in a gallery walk where they give and receive peer feedback on essay writing and set related SMART goals. This activity can be used after students have each written a short essay or a timed 250-word essay. First, each student goes to an essay and has five minutes to read it and complete a feedback card, detailing one strength and one area of improvement. After five minutes, students place the feedback card face-down and move on to the next essay. The activity continues until each student has completed four feedback cards. Next, students find their own essays and read the feedback. After that, in pairs, students discuss questions about the feedback they received. Students then write two points they learned from the feedback to help them in future essays. Based on the two points, students then move on to set two SMART goals for their next essay. Afterwards, students write two specific steps that they will take to achieve each SMART goal. Finally, students create three questions to use as a checklist to review their next essay.

In this productive analysing essay questions worksheet, students learn and practice topic words, instruction words and limiting words that can be used to decode essay writing prompts. Students then apply this knowledge by creating their own essay question and writing an essay that responds to a question set by their partner. First, students read a short text that explains the importance of analyzing an essay question and the meanings of topic words, limiting words and instruction words. Students then match a set of instruction words to their definitions. Next, students read essay questions and identify the topic words, instruction words and limiting words. Students then choose a topic and create their own essay question using the instruction words. After that, students swap papers with a partner and attempt an analysis of their partner's essay question. Students then write an essay that addresses the question set by their partner. Finally, students conduct a peer review and feedback for the essay their partner wrote.

In this informative writing process worksheet, students learn key steps in the research process with a particular focus on developing research questions and writing source summaries. First, students read information about how to research for a writing assignment. Students then read an example assignment question, underline the key terms and explain why it's important to understand them. Next, students read a list of research topics and identify three that are relevant to the assignment. After that, students choose one of the topics and identify three key features. Students then use the details to form two relevant and effective research questions. Next, students review eight sources and decide which are appropriate or not for an academic assignment. For those that are not, they explain why. Students then read an article extract and complete a summary of the extract. Afterwards, students read a second article extract and write a source summary. Finally, in pairs, students conduct a brief peer review of their summaries by discussing three questions.