This document provides advice on various aspects of academic writing such as summarizing, avoiding plagiarism, using quotations and paraphrases, organizing essays, writing introductions and conclusions, and using topic sentences. It emphasizes that essays should have a clear argument or thesis, and notes some key elements of introductions, paragraphs, and conclusions. Transitions, diction, and economy in writing are also discussed.
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY (REVISITING PARAGRAPH WRITING)
English Language learners: This is a step-by-step 24-slide presentation to help you revisit necessary information about paragraph writing, so you can assemble an essay in a few easy steps. (Created by Rita Zuba Prokopetz / G&R Languages – October, 2013)
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY (REVISITING PARAGRAPH WRITING)
English Language learners: This is a step-by-step 24-slide presentation to help you revisit necessary information about paragraph writing, so you can assemble an essay in a few easy steps. (Created by Rita Zuba Prokopetz / G&R Languages – October, 2013)
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Learn the secret to crafting effective short essays for supplements and prompts required by universities and colleges, including The Common Application and University of California.
What is an Essay:
An essay is a piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to simply inform the reader about a particular topic. In order for the reader to be convinced or adequately informed, the essay must include several important components to make it flow in a logical way.
The main parts (or sections) to an essay;
Introduction
Body
conclusion
Choose the Type of Essay:
The first step to writing an essay is to define what type of essay you are writing. There are four main categories into which essays can be grouped:
Narrative Essay: Tell a story or impart information about your subject in a straightforward, orderly manner, like in a story.
Persuasive Essay: Convince the reader about some point of view.
Expository Essay: Explain to the reader how to do a given process. You could, for example, write an expository essay with step-by-step instructions on how to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Descriptive Essay: Focus on the details of what is going on.
Choose the Type of Essay:
The first step to writing an essay is to define what type of essay you are writing. There are four main categories into which essays can be grouped:
Narrative Essay: Tell a story or impart information about your subject in a straightforward, orderly manner, like in a story.
Persuasive Essay: Convince the reader about some point of view.
Expository Essay: Explain to the reader how to do a given process. You could, for example, write an expository essay with step-by-step instructions on how to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Descriptive Essay: Focus on the details of what is going on.
I created this presentation to go along with a text book I use in my class.
McWhorter, Kathleen T. Reflections: Patterns for Reading and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. Print.
This presentation can give useful advice to all the information you have already gathered for your Argumentative Essay. More tips you can take from this article https://essay-academy.com/account/blog/how-to-write-argumentative-essay
How to Write a Short Essay for a College ApplicationJanine Robinson
Learn the secret to crafting effective short essays for supplements and prompts required by universities and colleges, including The Common Application and University of California.
What is an Essay:
An essay is a piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to simply inform the reader about a particular topic. In order for the reader to be convinced or adequately informed, the essay must include several important components to make it flow in a logical way.
The main parts (or sections) to an essay;
Introduction
Body
conclusion
Choose the Type of Essay:
The first step to writing an essay is to define what type of essay you are writing. There are four main categories into which essays can be grouped:
Narrative Essay: Tell a story or impart information about your subject in a straightforward, orderly manner, like in a story.
Persuasive Essay: Convince the reader about some point of view.
Expository Essay: Explain to the reader how to do a given process. You could, for example, write an expository essay with step-by-step instructions on how to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Descriptive Essay: Focus on the details of what is going on.
Choose the Type of Essay:
The first step to writing an essay is to define what type of essay you are writing. There are four main categories into which essays can be grouped:
Narrative Essay: Tell a story or impart information about your subject in a straightforward, orderly manner, like in a story.
Persuasive Essay: Convince the reader about some point of view.
Expository Essay: Explain to the reader how to do a given process. You could, for example, write an expository essay with step-by-step instructions on how to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Descriptive Essay: Focus on the details of what is going on.
I created this presentation to go along with a text book I use in my class.
McWhorter, Kathleen T. Reflections: Patterns for Reading and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. Print.
This presentation can give useful advice to all the information you have already gathered for your Argumentative Essay. More tips you can take from this article https://essay-academy.com/account/blog/how-to-write-argumentative-essay
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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2. Index.
• Some general advice on
Academic Essay-Writing ----------------------------------------------- 1
• Summarizing -------------------------------------------------------------- 5
• How not to plagiarize? -------------------------------------------------- 6
• Using quotations --------------------------------------------------------- 7
• Paraphrase ----------------------------------------------------------------- 10
• Organizing an Essay ---------------------------------------------------- 11
• Introductions -------------------------------------------------------------- 12
• Using Thesis Statement ------------------------------------------------ 13
• Paragraphs ----------------------------------------------------------------- 14
• Using topic sentences --------------------------------------------------- 15
• Conclusions ---------------------------------------------------------------- 17
3. 1
Some general advice on
Academic Essay-Writing.
1. An essay should have an
argument. It should develop a
single “thesis” or a short set of
closely related points by
reasoning and evidence.
2. You should formulate the
questions you will seek to answer
in your essay.
3. The argument has to be clear
and persuasive.
4. 2
Some methods for writing an
essay:
• Start writing early.
• Write what seems readiest to be written.
• Keep the essay’s overall purpose and organization in mind,
amending them as a drafting proceeds.
• Revise extensively, attending the whole essay and
rearranging the sequense of its larger parts, adding and
deleting sections.
• Then, revise sentences, with special attention to transitions,
diction and economy.
• Finally, proofread the final copy.
5. 3
What are transitions, diction
and economy?
Transitions
They are expressions,
words or phrases that
connect the ideas and
arguments of the writer.
They mantain the logic of
the essay.
7. 5
Summarizing.
1. Include the title and identify the author in your first
sentence.
2. The first sentence or two of your summary should
contain the author’s thesis stated in your own words.
3. Omit ideas that are not really central to the text.
4. Omit minor details and specific examples.
5. Avoid writing opinions.
6. Avoid plagiarism.
8. 6
How not to plagiarize?
Plagiarism is a CRIME.
The purpose of any document is to show your own thinking
so:
• Give the reference as soon as you’ve mentioned the
idea you’re using.
• Name the authors, pages and dates to show how your
ideas are related to those of the experts.
9. 7
Using quotations.
Don’t include too
many because it
crowds out your own
ideas.
They show that you
have done some
research and you are
familiar with the
literature on your topic.
10. 8
What verbs and phrases can I use to
introduce my quotations?
Verbs
Argues
Maintains
States
Writes
Suggests
Claims
Points out
Insists
Demonstrates
Concludes
Observes
Says
Comments
Counters
Explains
Notes
Asserts
Reveals
12. 10
Paraphrase.
Paraphrase
Restate someone else’s
ideas in your own language
at roughly the same level of
detail.
Along with quotation and summary, it provides the primary
tools for integrating your sources into your documents.
13. 11
Organizing an Essay.
Questions to ask yourself before starting:
• What type of essay am I going to be writing?
• Does it belong to a specific genre?
IMPORTANT
The structure of an essay
should not be determined by
the structure of its source
material.
14. 12
Introductions.
An introduction must:
• Identify your topic.
• Provide essential context.
• Indicate your particular focus in the essay.
• Engage your’s readers attention (with stadistics, a
quote, an anedote, etc)
16. 14
Paragraphs.
A paragraph is a
sentence or a group of
sentences that
supports one central,
unified idea.
The most effective way
to achieve paragraphs
unity is using topic
sentences.
They vary in
length
depending on
the needs of
the paragraph.
17. 15
Using topic sentences.
They state the
main point of
paragraphs.
They usually
appear at the very
beginning of
paragraphs.
18. 16
How do I come up with a topic sentence?
Ask yourself:
Why have you
chosen to include
the information it
have?
Why is the paragraph
important in the
context of your
argument?
What point are
you trying to
make?
19. 17
A strong conclusion:
• Provide a sense of closure to the essay.
• Place your concepts in a wider contex.
• In some cases, it add a stimulus to further thought.
• It is not only a summary, but if you want to summarize,
please do it in your own words.
Conclusions.