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1. Are paragraphs really necessary?
Task 1
Read through the following un-paragraphed text entitled 'Coping with examination stress' in Macqueen, C (1998) Getting Ahead in Tertiary Study: A Practical Guide for Business, Social Science and Arts Students Sydney: UNSW Press p.4
Examination stress is most effectively managed through good preparation. If you allocate your preparation time so that you also maintain a healthy lifestyle, then your stress levels should be minimal. Remember also to manage your personal expectations and those of others, such as parents, immediate family and significant others. Positive thinking will be a major bonus. If you believe that you will succeed, you generally will. If you go into an examination thinking it will be difficult and you won't be able to cope, again that will probably be the case. If in the course of the examination you feel yourself losing control and becoming excessively panicked, then stop, take some deep breaths, focus your eyes away from the paper and into the middle distance whilst your deep breathing gets you back into control, and begin again. If a particular question is making you panic, leave it - move on to the next one and come back if you have time left over at the end. This basic failure to prioritise your energy can become your undoing since the sense of panic can spiral out of control and lead to inertia or frantic activity, resulting in few positive outcomes. The world will not stand or fall on the results of one examination; if you have worked hard in all of the components of the course assessment, including presentations and other coursework elements, then the results of the examination will only be a portion of the overall result.
Is the passage easy to read without paragraphs? Why/why not? Try now to break the section into paragraphs. What might help you to determine where the paragraphs should go?
How did you decide as you were reading through the above text where one paragraph
1. Are paragraphs really necessary?
Task 1
Read through the following un-paragraphed text entitled 'Coping with examination stress' in Macqueen, C (1998) Getting Ahead in Tertiary Study: A Practical Guide for Business, Social Science and Arts Students Sydney: UNSW Press p.4
Examination stress is most effectively managed through good preparation. If you allocate your preparation time so that you also maintain a healthy lifestyle, then your stress levels should be minimal. Remember also to manage your personal expectations and those of others, such as parents, immediate family and significant others. Positive thinking will be a major bonus. If you believe that you will succeed, you generally will. If you go into an examination thinking it will be difficult and you won't be able to cope, again that will probably be the case. If in the course of the examination you feel yourself losing control and becoming excessively panicked, then stop, take some deep breaths, focus your eyes away from the paper and into the middle distance whilst your deep breathing gets you back into control, and begin again. If a particular question is making you panic, leave it - move on to the next one and come back if you have time left over at the end. This basic failure to prioritise your energy can become your undoing since the sense of panic can spiral out of control and lead to inertia or frantic activity, resulting in few positive outcomes. The world will not stand or fall on the results of one examination; if you have worked hard in all of the components of the course assessment, including presentations and other coursework elements, then the results of the examination will only be a portion of the overall result.
Is the passage easy to read without paragraphs? Why/why not? Try now to break the section into paragraphs. What might help you to determine where the paragraphs should go?
How did you decide as you were reading through the above text where one paragraph