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Review
We have talked about how writing cohesively means that your text 'flows' nicely. This means that the sentences and paragraphs are connected together rather than sitting in isolation. Last week we looked at how we can use topic and transition sentences as well as paragraph unity to organise our information cohesively. In this session we'll talk about how we can structure our sentences to create similar links within paragraphs.
Live session discussion - review of paragraph cohesion
Live session discussion - review of paragraph cohesion
How much do you remember from last week about:
What makes a good topic sentence?
What does it mean for a paragraph to have 'unity'?
What's the difference between transition words, phrases and clauses? Why do we use them?
Live session discussion - task review
Live session discussion - task review
Compare your notes from page 1 of the preparation materials. Which text did you find easier to read, and why?
What do the highlighted words in the text on the left refer to, and what do the colours signify?
How would you define a cohesive device from the work we did on page 7?
On page 9 you had a chance to look again to the first paragraph from text 1 of the reading lesson. What cohesive devices did you identify? Compare your notes.
What do you think about the idea of 'creating links' between clauses and sentences in the text? Do you think it is an effective way of improving your writing? How much practice do you think it will take to get used to this way of writing?
Peer review - Writing a cohesive summary
Peer review - Writing a cohesive summary
Using the techniques that we have studied today, write a paragraph which summarises Text 2 from the reading class yesterday. Remember the golden rule for writing in your own words: put the original away! Make sure you have the ideas clear in your own head or in note form, and try and come up with a short text with the following features:
A clear an helpful topic sentence
A sense of unity
Sentences which connect together using the given and new information structure
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