LESSON 14

Collaborate: Job specific writing tasks


It is important to be able to identify job-specific writing tasks that our learners will need to write in their day-to-day work. In some cases learners may only need to read texts ( for example, reports) rather than write them, so it is important to make this distinction in your analysis.

Collaborate to produce a list of those texts that are specific to learners of Technical English, for example, Emails - Read and Write.
  • Add at least one example.
  • Come back later and see what your colleagues have added.




MARIA VERONICA VALDIVIA
logbooks- writing
technical manuals: reading
weather reports -reading and writing

MARTHA AZUCENA SANCHEZ
prescriptions -write
reports - write
contracts -read and write

LIZ GAMBOA
English for Secretaries: reports - writing and reading
letters and emails - writing and reading
contracts - writing and reading

Manuel Alvear
English for tourism: brochures - writing and reading
contracts - writing and reading

English for doctors: prescriptions - writing
reports - reading and writing


Cao Xia
English for secretaries: meeting agenda-writing and reading
request letter-reading and writing
complaint letter-reading and writing

Diego Gomez
Blog - Write
Forum - Read & Write
Concept map - Read & Write


Iram H Shahzad
Medical English - writing prescriptions
Lab Reports - Reading

Miriam Diaz
English for Engineers
Technical reports, email, professional correspondence, writing procedures, summarizing laws, rules and regulations

Mario Castillo Ramos
English for Engineering
  • Lab reports: reading & writing
  • FAQ's: reading and writing
  • Glossary of technical terms: reading and writing

Alfredo Lopez Baez
University papers because sometimes these students are taking their masters or other university courses



Jacqueline M. Vinatier

- Contracts (reading and writing
- Technical books (reading
- Secretary agenda (writing and reading
- Letters and e-mails (reading and writing
- Technical reports (reading and writing
- Brochures (writing and reading