Week 6
- 1. Getting Ready to Write Identify aspects of academic reading and writing to personally focus on developing Application of skills to prepare a piece of academic writing
- 2. Are you ready you are to write your assignment?
- 3. Assignment 1 • Part 1) 500 words. • Describe the process of finding and selecting reading material with examples from your weekly reading and summarising activities. • You have had to choose one piece of reading from a choice of three for Part 2 of this assignment. Why did you choose the one you are using? • Part 2) 500 words. • You have two short articles. What are the authors saying? Write a short summary of each. You will all have to use article 1 but can choose from article 2, 3 and 4 as your second. 1 all use OR OR 2 3 4 Your essay
- 4. This assignment is designed to show that you have fulfilled learning objectives 1 and 2 of the module: • Find and evaluate information • Present writing in an academic writing style So, this means that in Part 1 you have to show that you know what type of information you should be using, why certain types of information are better than others, and how you find these better sources. Give some examples of how you have found specific articles. For Part 2, you need to summarise the main argument in each. For the very top marks, you could consider how they compare and contrast.
- 5. This assignment is designed to show that you have fulfilled learning objectives 1 and 2 of the module: • Find and evaluate information • Present writing in an academic writing style This also means that you need to use an academic writing style throughout. For example, avoid using ‘I’, and use good paragraph structures. Finally, look back at previous week’s resources and activities, and read through the grading criteria behind the Assessment Guide on Canvas.
- 6. Now you have a chance to start working on your assignment and ask me any questions. • Maybe review some work rom the past weeks to make sure you’re read to write • Maybe start reading article 1 • Maybe start looking at the three optional articles and decide which you will use • The choice is yours!
- 7. Online learning Find a definition of critical analysis and post it to a class discussion board Identify targets met/not yet met to complete Week 6 Activity: ‘How are you doing?’ in Quizzes Homework Work on your assignment
Editor's Notes
- #3: 10 minute quiz.
- #4: Use 20 minutes or so to go through this and the next slides on their assignment.
- #5: Just talk through all of this to explain further. You could always get up the grading criteria and talk through some of the key features of it.
- #6: Just talk through all of this to explain further. You could always get up the grading criteria and talk through some of the key features of it.
- #7: This is so the students feel they have some agency in their next step. As long as they are doing some preparation, they can choose what would work best for them.