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Post 3: Some language and grammar comments

Dear All, I wrote a new post in my blog which I'm planning to add to as the semesmter progresses and focus on some typical language and grammar mistakes I spot in your writing. 1. Types of Academic Writing: https://www.bestcustomwriting.com/blog/types-of-academic-writing   2. Things to Remember:  a) To talk to vs To talk with Here is a link to a post on Grammarly, a very informative and useful resource to use to check some of the grammar and vocabulary questions you might have: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/talk-to-vs-talk-with/ In essence you should use "to talk to" when a conversation is one-sided, while "to talk with" is used when  both people participating in some conversation equally contribute to the discussion  

Post 2 Body Language

Dear All, I am sure you would find the discussion of the Body Language interesting and the activities you are going to do today useful and informative. here are things for you to do: 1.  Ask and answer the following questions: A. What's body language B. What and how we can communicate without words? Specific Examples are necessary! C. Which of these things do you think has the most impact on the how you communicate? Words Tone of voice Gesture Facial Expression The way we sit or stand D. How conscious are you of your own body language E. Do you think men or women are more conscious of body language? Why? F. Do you think you are able to read other people's body language? Reading task: look at the infographic at: https://tinyurl.com/grmsxhd and try to answer these questions: 1. What do these statistics  refer to? 11% 7% 2. Here is a piece of infographic that depicts some information about various aspects of the body language: https://i.pinimg.com/

Sermester 2: Task 1 A Global Student

Dear All, Welcome to the second semester of the Academic Writing course! I hope you had a good semester break and are ready to continue mastering your writing skills. Today we're going to discuss what students' life around the world is like and then create a guide for the students from other parts of the world coming to study at our university. It'd be great if as part of this task you could interview a student from another department about what his/her life at the university is like and what kind of experiences s/he has had, both good and not quite. In the end I'm hoping that we'll be able to create this guide that your peers will be able to use to make their life easier. In the thread below please share a summary of your discussion of the qus in Ex 1 Also, here is a link to the University of East Anglia students' guidebook: https://portal.uea.ac.uk/documents/6207125/8540534/University+Student+Handbook+for+Taught+Programmes You should look thro