tasks week 4 academic writing

1. Academic writing week 4

2. Agenda
• Feedback on each other’s summaries (videos). Is there any
progress in the writing process? If yes, which? If no, why is it
so?
• Check homework on paragraphing-The death of yearbooks
• Week 3-vocabulary (register-informal vs formal)
• Linking sentences-assignment 2 week 3
• Paragraphing –task on the blog
• Common errors

3. The death of yearbooks-paragraphing
• Check with your peers in your group how you divided the
text into paragraphs. Motivate your choice.

4. Vocabulary
Find more formal expressions to replace the words from the left column
Carry out
help
Give up
Go away
buy
give
get
Figure out
Find out
Look for
Make something up
Cut down on
Accomplish, complete
Improve, relieve
abandon
To leave
purchase
Provide, yield, produce
Earn (he got a bad reputation)
Catch (measles)
Discover, determine (to figure out a
way to do things)
To search for
Manufacture, constitute, fabricate
To reduce

5. Assignment 2- week 3-combine these sentences into one complex sentence.
Determine the relationship between the sentences. Check the theory about linking
on http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/conjunctions
• 1. You first have to read all the questions thoroughly. Then you can answer them
one by one.
• 2. Students want to feel fitter and less tired. They have to eat healthy and sleep
well.
• 3. One in twenty students drop out of college. The majority of students finish
their degree.
• 4.Feelings of depression can come on gradually. We may not feel just how
depressed we are.
• 5. You start by making an outline of a texct. Then you write the tekst itself.
• 6. It may not always seem like parents can influence the way their children think
about political issues. Many children adopt their parents"view on societal issues

6. Answers assignment 2 week 3

7. Paragraphing
• You can find the document on paragraphing here.
• There is also a separate post on the blog called
Paragraphing.

8. Common errors
• Form the list of common errors
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
make a list of at least 7 errors you should avoid.Post these
on your blog.