I hope you're enjoying your weekend, guys.
Here's the link to the (very) extensive reading of the week, which you must do as part of your preparation for Writing Task 2.
Since it's a long text, don't forget to highlight (in your comments!) what you consider to be its main points, that is to say, the advice which might be of most use to you when writing your own essays.
As both a teacher and a writer, I particularly like the following:
- "There are no foolproof recipes for producing a quality assignment. Each student will employ an individual approach to essay writing; however, what follows is an outline of the fundamental steps involved in the essay writing process."
and
- "A clear understanding of what you are expected to do is crucial to writing a quality assignment. Make sure you understand what issue/problem has to be addressed. Analyse the wording of the question carefully to gain an understanding of what is being asked. There are three aspects of the question to consider: instructional/operational/directive/task words; content/information key words; delimiting words."
What about you? Which recommendations do you like the most? Bearing in mind "there are no foolproof recipes for producing a quality assignment", what approach to essay writing do you usually employ?
Have a nice Sunday!
P.S.: It's a semiformal article, not an academic essay, but have you read Bruno's text about life skills being taught at school yet? What's your viewpoint on the subject? Tell us!
P.P.S.: Thank you, Rodrigo, Mariane, for keeping posting such nice comments!
P.P.P.S.: As the number of signatures on the petition to save Balandra beach has increased from 14,204 to 14,211 since I myself signed it, I do believe some of you have done so as well - muchas gracias! ;)
P.S.: It's a semiformal article, not an academic essay, but have you read Bruno's text about life skills being taught at school yet? What's your viewpoint on the subject? Tell us!
P.P.S.: Thank you, Rodrigo, Mariane, for keeping posting such nice comments!
P.P.P.S.: As the number of signatures on the petition to save Balandra beach has increased from 14,204 to 14,211 since I myself signed it, I do believe some of you have done so as well - muchas gracias! ;)
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, sorry Bruna for the delay with the Writting task. I swear it will be sent to you until tomorrow morning.
About the test, in my opnion it is completly mandatory before writting an essay you know clearly what are the questions to be answered. I've been working in the academic area during six years and have had 12 articles published in international magazines. In all of them, before starting any research, I had to stabilish what were the reasons to carry out such research. It is impossible you plan the methods correctly and determine the suitable equipments you are supposed to use without knowing what you want to find out.
Unfortunately, I have already talked with master degree students who are one month before finishing their researches that had not idea about the importance of their results or what were their meaning. It is unacceptable. In all researches you need to know the importance of it and be prepared in advance to interpretate all the possible results found out.