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Academic Writing Class 1 Paragraphs Sentences
- 1. Academic Writing Professor: Leticia Esteves QLU-Panamá/ Fall 2015 Class 1: The Paragraph
- 2. What is a Word?
- 3. A word is…
- 4. What is a Sentence?
- 6. What is a paragraph?
- 7. A paragraph is not… • the building blocks of papers. • a group of at least five sentences. • a page half long.
- 8. A paragraph is… a group of related statements that a writer develops about a subject. 1. The first sentence states the specific point/idea of the topic. 2. The rest of the sentences support that point.
- 10. A paragraph is a Hamburger
- 13. A paragraph is…
- 14. A paragraph is…
- 15. What is Academic Writing?
- 16. Academic Writing is… • kind of writing used un high school and college. • different from creative writing (Story-telling). • different from personal writing (letters, emails). • more formal (no slang, contractions or abbreviations). • complete sentences and organized paragraphs.
- 18. So here’s the secret. Your success with academic writing depends upon how well you understand what you are doing as you write and then how you approach the writing task. Early research done on college writers discovered that whether students produced a successful piece of writing depended largely upon their representation of the writing task.
- 19. What is more important? a) doing the right things. b) doing the things right.
- 21. Conclusion As we leave this discussion, I want to return to what I said was the secret for your success in writing college essays: Your success with academic writing depends upon how well you understand what you are doing as you write and then how you approach the writing task. Hopefully, you now have a better idea about the nature of the academic writing task and the expectations behind it. Knowing what you need to do won’t guarantee you an “A” on your paper—that will take a lot of thinking, hard work, and practice—but having the right orientation toward your college writing assignments is a first and important step in your eventual success.