Sumários

Unit 5 Plan B

17 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • John Richard Walker

How to refute.

Excerpt from Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare and examples of refutation.

Planning essay 2 about "Educating Rita" by Willy Russell, using plan B.

Unit 5

13 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • John Richard Walker

Planning an entire text.

Using Plan A (and preparing a plan for essay 1 on "Educating Rita", by Willy Russell.

Unit 4 active practice

10 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • John Richard Walker

Substituting the numbers in a text with an appropriate discourse marker.

Ken Hyland: hedges and boosters and the idea of persuasion in a text.

The Manchester Academic Phrasebank.

Milan Kundera and his personal dictionary of important issues.

How to avoid using the first person singular in academic writing.

Unit 4 Signposting

6 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • John Richard Walker

The role of discourse markers in longer paragraphs.

Identifying thoughts in a longer paragraph and where to place different types of discourse marker.

course book pages 31-34

Unit 3 active practice

3 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • John Richard Walker

deconstruction, reordering and reconstruction of a text, so that the paragraphs contain a single subject and the sentences represent the thoughts in that idea.

course book pages 28-30