Ex. 16.15: Family Description – Writing

FAMILY DESCRIPTION. Write an essay about your family using the instructions below. Write at approx. 15-20 sentences and be prepared to present your description in class.

• Pre-Writing: Look back at your family tree and review the vocabulary for family members. Make a brief outline for three paragraphs:
  • General information about family: importance, size, location, etc.
  • Immediate family
  • Extended family
• First Draft: Write a rough draft of your essay, but focus more on content than on grammatical correctness.
• Editing: Read your draft and check the items listed below.
  • Organization: Does each paragraph have a main topic? Are the sentences within each paragraph related to each other
  • Cohesion and Style: Have you connected some of the sentences by using conjunctions such as og (and), men (but), fordi (because), and som (who, which)? Have you varied your sentence structure by starting some sentences with adverbials?
• Spelling and Grammar
  • Check the plural noun forms.
    ex.) Jeg har to søstre og to brødre.
  • Check the possessive pronouns.
    ex.) Mora mi heter Bente.
    Check the verb forms (present tense and infinitive).
    ex.) Jeg liker å være sammen med familien min.
• Second draft: Rewrite your description now and make the changes you worked on during the editing process. Submit to your instructor.