Improve the quality of your students' writing.

Teaches advanced writing skills at AS and A2. Practical exercises prepare students in essential areas to attain high grades.

Lectura y escritura avanzadas trains your students to write coherently and confidently at AS and A2 level. It gives them everything they need to improve their grades — whatever level they are at.

The units in Lectura y escritura avanzadas are grouped into text types as follows:

• Instructional and informative texts
• Narrative and descriptive texts
• Formal texts
• Persuasive texts
• Essays

Students are guided step by step to write these progressively more difficult types of texts. Each unit in the book is based on a topic related to the AS/A2 syllabus. Most units contain a final Web exercise, which acts as a springboard that enables students to go off in different directions once they have worked through the exercises. Through the suggestions that we provide they can do further research on topic, style, vocabulary and phrases.

The aim of this book is to train students in techniques that will enable them write clearly and coherently at an advanced level. By introducing them to a variety of text types and by giving them the opportunity to analyse and work with these texts, the authors help students to develop the skills to write in a variety of styles and registers. Students’ learning is guided and supported step by step throughout the book, so that their skills acquisition is carefully structured, and practice is built in at each stage.

Writing is a process, but not necessarily a linear one. Planning, drafting, re-writing, moving blocks of text, changing words, re-drafting, discussing the text, deleting, adding – all these form part of the process. In Lectura y escritura avanzadas your students are encouraged to work together on the writing process. Sometimes students will work alone on an aspect of a text and then come together to compare their findings, or work to produce two sides of an argument. In some sections we invite students to edit the work of others, which is then re-drafted. Re-drafts may form the basis of yet further discussion before a final written outcome is produced.

This collaborative approach not only helps students verbalise and reflect on the processes that they are using in drafting a piece of writing, but also makes the difficult task of writing long pieces of written work in Spanish much less daunting.