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Essay writing techniques: Argumentative Essays (III)

9 Abril 2021, 12:30 Ana Rita Martins

  • Linking word practice

Essay writing techniques: Argumentative Essays (III)
  • Revising how to insert quotes, references & write a reference list
  • Writing an essay outline


Discursive essays continued.

8 Abril 2021, 11:00 Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Outlining an essay: deconstructing the essay by Nick Enfield "Ideas spread like disease: Let's treat them with the same caution" with a view to producing an outline/plan; organising ideas for an essay into Introduction, main body paragraphs (topic sentence and supporting evidence); and conclusion.


Lesson 26

7 Abril 2021, 15:30 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Students' oral presentations

- Essay organisation practice

Homework: write an essay outline


Essay writing techniques: Argumentative Essays (II)

7 Abril 2021, 12:30 Ana Rita Martins

Essay writing techniques: Argumentative Essays

  • In-class exercises: Analysing an argumentative essay; Linking words Practice.


"The Guilt" continued. Discursive essays.

7 Abril 2021, 11:00 Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

The short story "The Guilt" by Rayda Jacobs continued: discussion of the questions on page 69.   Discursive essays: (a) for and against essay; (b) opinion essay; (c) solutions to a problem essay - how information is organised in these three kinds of discursive essay. Stylistic conventions of discursive essays: what you should use and what you shouldn't use. 
Reading and analysing the structure of the essay by Nick Enfield "Ideas spread like disease: Let's treat them with the same caution".