Academic Writing: The Paragraph (online class)

11 Março 2020, 14:00 • Ana Rita Martins

As in-person classes have been suspended, all the material was uploaded to the course's e-learning webpage.

Material covered:
  • Topic Sentence
  • Supporting Sentences
  • Concluding Sentence
Exercises for these structures are available online as well as short videos that explain key ideas to help students understand the different points.

Goals for the upcoming weeks:
March 11: 
  • Paragraph Writing: Writing a Topic Sentence & Supporting sentences
  • Complete online exercises
March 16: 
  • Grammar: Modal Verbs: Revision (I) (p. 41-42, see Course Book)
  • Paragraph Writing: Writing a concluding sentence
  • Complete online exercises
  • Mandatory Written Assignment (download instructions available under 'Assignments and Other news')
March 18:
  • Oral Presentations (to be done via Skype)
  • Short story: "Cyprus Avenue" by Lucy Caldwell (pp. 17-23, see Course Book)
  • Grammar: Modal Verbs: Present & Past 
  • Complete exercises (p. 43-44, see Course Book; answers to be send to teacher by e-mail)
March 23:
  • Short Story: "Cyprus Avenue" by Lucy Caldwell (online discussion forum)
  • Grammar: Continuous Tenses
  • Hand in proposals for OPs on April 6 (see instructions on p. 9, plus PPT presentation online; proposals are to be sent by e-mail)