Abstract
This article describes in detail the Self-Directed Process Approach (SDPA) to teaching writing which has been used effectively in teaching Technical Report Writing to a large class of engineering students. What is unique about SDPA and what makes it particularly suitable for large classes is that students are taught, through the use of guidelines, checklists, a type of text analysis and detailed step-by-step instructions, how to be their own evaluator and how to take the responsibility of improving their own work. SDPA, which also uses peer feedback and is practice-oriented, reduces the teacher's marking load. By the time the students submit their work to the teacher, they will have improved it considerably, having checked by themselves most of the things a teacher usually checks in a student's written work.
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