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Do you learn to write essays by writing bad ones, and 6) , or by learning to write sentences and their paragraphs and then how to link paragraphs?" Michael Lewis points out, that though a wide 7) of methods has been developed over the last decades we still do not know how best to teach our students. Nowadays there is a 8) in the field to favor the notion of approach which serves the teaching profession well since experience has shown that no one method can provide a 9) answer to students' different needs. The following are two 10) principles on which different approaches to writing are supposed to be based. Communication in Writing Each piece of writing is in essence a piece of 11) . Writing is certainly no one-way-street. Students need to be made aware of this. There is a writer who wants to communicate something to an audience. The notions of "Purpose" and "Audience" are 12) here. Situations can be created in class where students write with a concrete audience like other students or pen pals in mind. Teachers need to create motivating 13) , which intrinsically encourage students to write. From Process to Product In Japanese martial arts like Judo and Aikido the suffix "do" means "the way" emphasizing that it is the way, the process, which is important. However, you can only go along a certain way if you know where to go. You need to have a 14) in mind, the product. "The product is, after all, the 15) goal; it is the reason why we go through the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.