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Preparation work for live session
Preparation work for live session
Review our lesson on Introductions from week 4, and how they're broken into stages of background, hook and thesis.
What kind of information would you expect to see in the conclusion section of an academic paper?
Live session discussion - task review
Live session discussion - task review
How does Brackenbury's conclusion mirror the elements in the image on the left?
We also looked at these words with the help of corpus tools: Word Sketch and Sketch Diff. There was a link to Word Sketch collocations (words that are usually found together) of both effects and implications, followed by a comparison using Sketch Diff. What did you learn about how these words are used differently in sentences, and how easy were these tools to use?
Share your answers from page two about the possible implications of:
Winning the lottery
A research paper which demonstrates that excessive social media use negatively affects social skills
More people working from home
Climate change
The racial justice protests that took place after the killing of George Floyd.
Compare the sentences that you re-wrote from page seven. What hedging strategies did you use?
Why do you think hedging language is more frequent in conclusions?
Live session - critical discussion
Live session - critical discussion
What advice do your teachers in other modules give you about how to conclude your academic writing?
In this session we've looked at the kind of language that concludes studies and research papers. What other kinds of academic writing are there, and how might the styles of writing differ?
You might remember the British Academic Written English corpus from last week's listening class. Look through their list of writing genres; which ones are you familiar with, and in which disciplines do you think you might find them?
OK, time to get out of here.
Peer review - writing a conclusion
Peer review - writing a conclusion
In the reading classes we have been looking at texts which discuss average working hours across countries, the idea of work/life balance and the dangers associated with fatigue from overwork. Drawing on these texts, write a conclusion paragraph in response to the question: would a 48 hour working week be beneficial to society?
Upload your completed paragraph to Eduflow for peer review.
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