Programme – Level 0 Module Title: Academic Writing Lecturer: Anna Zimmerman Assessment Task: You are to write and deliver a speech (between 750 and 1000 word) as if you were either David Cameron‚ or Barack Obama. This can be on any topic‚ real or imagined‚ but you must write as if you were the President or Prime Minister‚ not as yourself. Marks will be awarded for the following criteria: Use of voice and body language Originality of concept and content Appropriateness of language for
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Academic Writing Skills Even if you have perfect English skills you will not get top grades for your assignments if you do not answer the question asked. Many students prepare pages of perfect script and are then shocked when they receive poor grades – the usual problem is that they have not answered the question set for them to do. So how do you get this task right? A good answer will always: Follow the specific directions/tasks Identify and address the subject/topic in the question Use the required
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ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING For students at Charles Darwin University A resource to assist tutors working with Indigenous students Table of Contents Purpose of this booklet This booklet aims to provide resources to tutors who work with Indigenous students at Charles Darwin University. It is intended to provide you with information and exercises to assist you to scaffold students to be successful in their university studies. We focus on writing academic essays‚ because this is a skill student’s need
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causes and effects of floods; if you choose to write a narrative essay‚ you can narrate a story related to floods; and if you choose to write a descriptive essay‚ you can focus on describing floods. Descriptive Essay: WRITING a descriptive essay is perhaps more difficult than writing a narrative essay because it makes more demands on one’s use of language. In a descriptive essay‚ you need to give a detailed description of a person‚ place‚ object‚ experience or memory. Your description must be so
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SEMESTER 01 | ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES – ENN103F | UNIQUE NO. 707714 | | STUDENT NO. 53078136 | 2/27/2013 | SECTION A – SHORT QUESTIONS AND SECTION B ESSAYS | AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A LOOSING BATTLE? Section A : Short questions 1) IS THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY MORALLY DEFENSIBLE? EXPLAIN. In my opinion‚ I believe that the Affirmative Action Policy is not morally defensible as it tends to be more favorable towards a certain group of people. However according to an article
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Academic Writing in English∗ Dr Radu Negoescu‚ RKC January 22‚ 2012 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Common English mistakes 2 3 Academic writing 3.1 Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Clarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.1 Referencing using the Harvard method 3.3.2 Conventions for the Bibliography . . . 3.4 Assignment front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 Presentation of your assignment
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Outline five difficulties the students faced with writing. Which of these might be relevant to you? 1. Grammar 2. Interpretation 3. Spelling 4. Language 5. Writing Skills All of the above are equally relevant to me also such as; Grammar · Establishing what is meant by - A Subject – something or someone that does an action. · Establishing what is meant by - A verb – the action done. · Now‚ subject and verb must agree for tense (past/present/future)
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Student Learning Development Services Academic Writing 0800 MASSEY (627 739) www.massey.ac.nz Academic Writing: A Guide to Tertiary Level Writing Edited by Dr Natilene Bowker 2007 Academic Writing: A Guide to Tertiary Level Writing | i Welcome to Academic Writing! This resource has been designed for Massey University students who are new to the conventions of academic writing. Many students‚ including extramural‚ internal‚ and both domestic and international‚ may find this
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CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES‚ UNIMAS PBI 1032: ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING Learning Unit 2: READING SKILLS By the end of this session‚ you should be able to: identify what the writer has stated literally (read the lines) infer what the writer has stated (read between the lines) apply ideas within the text to what you already know (read beyond the lines) A. Reading Academic Texts Academic texts are relatively formal in structure and style. They might be textbooks or just straightforward
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Article Summary “Academic Vocabulary‚ Writing and English for Academic Purposes: Perspectives from Second Language Learners” Averil Coxhead (2012) conducted a research on the use of English vocabulary in Writing and Academic purpose by involving with 14 students of English as an additional language at a New Zealand university. The research was mainly conducted through the experience obtained from background language learning and academic studies of the students by mainly based on two target
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