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Preparation work for the live session
Preparation work for the live session
Before you start the self-study activities, think about the following questions:
In order to effectively communicate ideas, is it a writer's responsibility to write clearly or the reader's responsibility to understand? In other words, should the writer or the reader make more of the effort?
Can you think of a situation where you read the same thing many times over because you couldn't understand what the text was saying, even though you recognised all the individual words?
Preparation work for the live session - what makes a text flow?
Preparation work for the live session - what makes a text flow?
Over the next two weeks we'll be looking at writing strategies to make your texts easier for an audience to read. We're working with the premise discussed above: that it is the writer's responsibility to communicate clearly and concisely, to structure your ideas logically, to create connections throughout your text using a range of cohesive devices, and just generally to make people want to read what you've written.
Live session discussion - task review
Live session discussion - task review
The preparation materials talked about avoiding 'gobbledygook' in your academic writing.
What do you understand by this term?
How do you sound appropriately academic without being too complicated?
Share your gobbledygook generated sentence with the class. What do you think it means?
Describe what you understand by the following terms:
Topic sentence
Paragraph cohesion
Paragraph unity
Transition language (words, phrases and clauses)
Share with the class your topic sentences from page 4 and your transition sentences from page 7.
Why do you think it is important to make your writing as easy to read as possible?
Live session - peer review: Planning your writing with mind maps
Live session - peer review: Planning your writing with mind maps
Mind mapping software is a visual way of planning your paragraph structure. Coggle, XMind and Google's MindMup 2 are free and very easy to use although there are plenty of other free ones available. Use one of them that you like to plan an answer to the question we looked at earlier: to what extent does ethical consumerism limit economic growth? When planning, think about what kind of information you will include, and write a topic/transition sentence for each paragraph.
Save your plan and upload it to Eduflow for peer editing.
Intermediate grammar: connecting words.
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