Harmer 
-Self-writng refers to diaries or portfolios.
-Stages of writing: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. 
-Six traits of good writing: ideas/content, organization, conventions, voice, coherence, word choice.
-To be an effective writer you should understand literacies, genres,  layout and puntuaction, text contrucction and spelling.
-Approaches to students writing and process and products should be taken into account.

How to put a text together in a comprehensible way involves understanding coherence.

Understand how we build up lexical chains in a text by using the same words, related words, synonyms, etc. how we substitute pronouns and phrases, and how we build tense agreement.

*Approaches to student writing

There are different approaches to the practice writing.

We will want to build the “writing habit.”

 Genre
 The genre represents the norms of different kinds of writing.A genre perspective allows students to study texts in the genre in which they are going to be writing before starting to compose their own work. This approach highlights three essential features of genre writing;

Writers should have in mind the context they are writing for
Writers need to establish the audience they are writing for
Writers should search for some examples of writing in the genre.

Layout and punctuation
 Different writing communities have different punctuation and layout conventions. They are non-transferable from one community to another. There are differences such as the way writers use commas instead of full stops. Punctuation is a matter of personal style to many readers, different genres of writing are laid out differently, so if we want to be successful writers we should be aware of these layouts and conventions to transmit our messages as clearly as we can.