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You’ll develop some proficiency in key areas of ‘academic’ grammar, learn about the stages in essay writing, and produce an essay of your own. You’ll also explore how to organise an essay, write in an academic style, and use tools to evaluate your own writing and other learners’ writing, so that by the end of the course you’re able to write a good, basic academic essay.
What topics will you cover?
Week 1
- Key features of academic writing
- Developing essay ideas
- Organising your ideas effectively
Week 2
- Essay structure and organisation
- Choosing a title
- Writing in an impersonal style
Week 3
- Using academic language
- Writing about facts and activities
- Writing about groups of people
- Writing longer sentences: linking words and subordinators
Week four
- The stages of writing an essay
- Analysing an essay title
- Deciding what evidence to use
- Writing a first draft of an essay
Week 5
- Evaluating a first draft of an essay
- Reflecting on feedback on your first draft of the essay
- Responding to feedback on your first draft of the essay
What will you achieve?
- Compare one aspect of life now with life in the past in one well-constructed paragraph.
- Explore organisational structure of essays: identify and name the different sections of an essay.
- Explain one aspect of your home town in one well-constructed paragraph, focussing on language accuracy.
- Develop and write the first draft of your essay.
- Contribute and receive feedback on first essay drafts.
- Reflect on feedback received and improve your draft to create and submit a second draft of your essay.
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