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Dear All, Are you fond of reading good stories? What makes them good and memorable? Discuss it briefly with one of your peers and share the summary of what you have discussed in the thread. Next, I'm inviting you to write a story using a special story plot generator tool. I've explained below how to use it. hoping that you'll find doing this task interesting and will enjoy doing it and will create the stories everybody will enjoy reading. Here is the explanation: Follow the link below to access a form with the help of which you will be able to receive all the necessary elements for you to create a story. http://writingexercises.co.uk/plotgenerator.php You will get the following details: The main character Character 2 Setting Situation Theme Character action What you need to do is develop your own story, using this information. You will have 3 attempts at choosing the story elements if you do not like the first or the second one that is generated. Yo

Dear All, Today I'd like to discuss with you a number of problems that keep recurring in your writing: a) Did you have a chance to read one of the posts by one of your peers they wrote about one of the sessions at the IATEFL Conference? Probably, not yet. So, your first task is to choose one, read about it and comment on it by asking a couple of questions. b) How to formulate a thesis statement http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/thesisexerciseprint.html c) What you need to remember about referencing the resources for this task I'll analyse one of your works with you together and then let you add references correctly to one of the works you have recently written: d) Techniques for writing conclusions:  This is your home task for 24.03.19 --http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/thesisexerciseprint.html -- https://www.time4writing.com/writing-resources/writing-a-good-conclusion-paragraph/

Dear All, I'd like you to get acquainted with the materials of the Conference that is being held in Liverpool this week. IATEFL is a large international organisation for teachers of English as a foreign language ( IATEFL ). Each year it holds a conference devoted to the discussion of a huge variety of questions associated with language learning and teaching. I have been a member of IATEFL since 2008 and taken part in several conferences throughout these years. Also I was the editor of the newsletter published by the LT SIG. It stands for Learning Technologies Special Interest Group, and this is a way in which IATEFL members are grouped. You can learn more about it at  https://www.iatefl.org/special-interest-groups/sig-list   First, I'm inviting you to watch the clip made 2 days ago, which can help you feel the atmosphere and the mood of it:  https://conference.iatefl.org/conference.html . Next, I'm inviting you to browse through the sessions of the c

Dear All, Your task for today is as follows: You need to find a website which is devoted to Writing in English. It could be a website that contains information about one of the following things 1. The process of writing 2. Some tasks to help you improve your writing 3. A website that discusses the elements of style 4. Some fun stuff that will help you to get motivated to write 5. Some resource about advanced vocabulary for writing 6. Some resource about the Mechanics of writing 7. Some resource about the element of writing of your choice Explain your choice, give us details about the website and provide some examples of its content. Explain why you found it useful and interesting. Add how your peers can benefit from using it Once you have published your answer, choose 2 posts written by your peers, go to the websites they have reviewed and get acquainted with them to see whether the information provided by your peer is complete or smth can be added to it. For e

Dear All,  T his post explains to you how to make references to the resources, such as journal articles, books, websites and more in your writing. As you know and as we discussed today during the class, there are 2 kinds of references you should provide in your writing.  The first kind of references is made in the text you are composing, and thus they are called in-text. They include the following information: The author's or authors' last name(s) followed by t he page number(s ): e.g., In his book "Crafting critical writing", the author Troy Hicks discusses different features of writing across media and genres (Troy, 4) In the end of your work, you should have a full list of references that has information about all the resources you have used in your work. It is  alphabetical and must contain the following  details:   T he author's name or authors' last name(s), year of publication, NAME of the journal/book/website, more sp

Dear All, today you are going to start working on the draft of your new essay. There are 2 resources I shared with you earlier during the semester: 25 Creative Prompts:  https://patch.com/pennsylvania/peters/25-creative-college-essay-prompts 100 Inspirational Essay Topics:  https://myassignmenthelp.com/blog/response-essay-topics/  It lists a large number of interesting essay prompts. Look through these resources quickly, choose a topic you are interested in discussing. Then do the following: 1. In the thread of your blog explain why this topic seems interesting to you and what you hope to discover by writing on it. 2. Decide what arguments you will discuss 2. Decide what supporting evidence you need to make your essay persuasive: - statistics - opinions taken from the discussion of this topic with your peers and/or family members -your own experience -smth else 3. Decide what type of essay you are going to write: For-and-Against Opinion Solutions to problems