Sumários

Unit 4 completed, Unit 5 introduced

17 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

Comparing negative and positive persuasion expressions with Ken Hyland's hedges and boosters.

The concept of "selling" and "telling" in academic writing and how htis is used in anglophone cultures.
Different ways of saying what you think in academic writing without saying "I think..."

Unit 5 introduced: Plan A

class cancelled

14 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

I was unable to be present due to an urgent family health issue.

Unit 4: Signposting and meta-text

10 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

Different functions of meta-text


Different categories of discourse marker. Active practice of inserting an appropriate discourse marker into sentences with different functions in longer paragraphs.

Unit 3 paragraphs and sentences

7 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

Reconstructing proper paragraphs in English from the notes taken on the thoughts in each idea.

Analysis and comparison of different versions of the whole text.
Checking the components of state (topic sentence), explain/develop, justify in an excerpt from Debrett.

Introduction to Unit 4: the concept of signposting in longer paragraphs; different types of meta-text.

Unit 3: paragraphs and sentences

3 Outubro 2024, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

deconstructing the information in the "paragraphs" of a CM article so as to obtain the thoughts; reconstructing the thoughts organised into paragraphs about a single theme.