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Part 2: While you are writing the essay, finish your letter by including the information below. Don’t forget to revise your letters. f) Describe your writing process. How did you narrow the chosen topic? g) What kind of planning did you do? h) What steps did you go through, what changes did you make along the way, what decisions did you face, and how did you make the decisions? i) How did comments from your peers help you? j) How did any class activities help you?

===** When our group was asked to choose a theme, we ** immediately thought about **something in the linguistics' area because, in our opinion, there are many interesting topics to be researched. We are all taking a Phonology Course this semester and we all have had experiences with English teaching. After discussing, we came to the conclusion that** although intonation is **an important feature** it **is not well focused by many educators. It is really necessary to be learned, otherwise speakers may fail on his or her real intention to say something.** === ===**After choosing the topic, we started looking for materials to support our ideas and it was quite easy, because even in the book we use for phonology classes, there was something about intonation. Our essay was focused to answer three main questions: why, how and when teaching intonation, so each member of the group was responsible to answer one question. We** thought **it could be better if we** wrote **the body of the essay first because it would help us develop the introduction and the conclusion.** **Having a peer editing was a different experience, but very effective in improving our writing skills. ****Our meetings in classroom were very useful, because we were able to work all together and make decisions on what we could change, or what could be improved. ** ===